Dr. Mendez-Villamil Accused of Gross Overprescribing Psychiatric Drugs

According to the Miami Herald, a Miami psychiatrist by the name of Mendez-Villamil who writes prescriptions for Medicaid patients at a rate of 150 a day, seven days a week, has been targeted by a U.S. senator as an example of why the federal government should do more to investigate over-utilization of healthcare.

The story in the Miami Herald about Mendez-Villamil has lead to further revelations that has been covered in an Associated Press story about Mendez-Villamil entitled Feds investigating high prescribing Fla. docs which discloses that the federal government has stopped reimbursing Mendez-Villamil, who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over 18 months, in a case that prompted a key senator to call for a nationwide investigation.