**BEWARE** Lyme-Literate Medical Doctors (LLMD) 10.06

A number of these so-called "Lyme-Literate Medical Doctors (LLMD) have
been
investigated for their extensive use of powerful intravenous
antibiotics and
other unconventional practices. In New York State, the Office of
Professional
Medical Conduct (OPMC) is investigated two or LLMD about their
treatments of a
large number of patients diagnosed as having chronic Lyme disease.

Outpatient intravenous therapy is a multi-billion-a-year business. It
remains
largely unregulated and can cost patients thousands of dollars per
week.
Price-gouging, drug markups, kickbacks, and self-referral of patients
by
physicians with financial ties to infusion companies have occurred. In
1995,
for example, Caremark, Inc., pled guilty to mail fraud charges for
entering
into illegal contracts with physicians by paying them to refer Medicaid

patients to use Caremark's infusion products. The settlement provided
for
approximately $44.5 million in civil penalties and restitution from
Caremark
[19]. In Michigan, prosecutors charged a physician and Caremark
employees with
scheming to overbill Blue Cross/Blue Shield for drugs and equipment for

patients with Lyme disease

.

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