FBI: Alton Doctor Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud and Illegal Dispensation of Controlled Substances

Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Viwathna Bhuthimethee, 68, a medical doctor who operated the Walk In Clinic, located at 654 East Broadway Street in Alton, Illinois, pled guilty February 14 in federal court to the 15 counts of an indictment that charged health care fraud against the Illinois Medicaid program and illegal distribution of Schedule III controlled substances (Hydrocodone) and Schedule IV controlled substances (Xanax) by prescribing outside the usual course of professional conduct and without legitimate medical…