Pain Specialists Pay $260K in DOJ Records Settlement

• DEA complaint said doctors failed to track controlled substances • Pain clinics no longer taking new high-dose patients

A trio of doctors operating San Francisco Bay Area pain clinics paid $260,000 to settle Drug Enforcement Administration claims they failed to maintain adequate records on narcotics.

The settlement agreement resolves allegations following a January 2014 DEA inspection that found violations at three locations of Pain Medicine Consultants Inc., the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said. The violations occurred between January 2012 and January 2014.

William Longton, Ruben Kalra, and Richard Shinaman agreed to collectively pay $260,000 ...