A Cedar Rapids surgery center has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve allegations it failed to maintain accurate records and controls and procedures to prevent theft and misuse of pain medications. The civil allegations stem from a criminal case of a former nurse stealing fentanyl from the center.
Two nurses sentenced for diverting medication for their own use, while a third charged with replacing fentanyl with saline. Also, a nurse practitioner was found guilty as part of a telemedicine fraud scheme.
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A federal judge gave a former registered nurse, who stole fentanyl from workplace to feed her own addiction, a lesser sentence of year years probation. Sabrina Thalblum faced more than two years in prison.