Physician Assistant's License Suspended in Painkillers Case

Troy Wubbena is accused of giving a young man (18) that was a friend of his sons (17) Roxicet (which is a very strong pain killer and is often abused by kids trying to get high) when he was at Troy Wubbenas house visiting. Troy Wubbena, practicing under the Supervison of Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander, kept giving him the pills for free until he was addicted. Once the kid was addicted, Troy Wubbena told him to buy the pills for 15.00 each. When the kid had spent all of his money and could no longer afford to feed the addiction that Troy Wubbena created, Troy Wubbena made him sell the pills for 15.00 each on the streets. Troy Wubbena is said to have made 3000.00 a day just from this one drug slave that he created. Troy Wubbena bragged that he had created other drug addicts that sold his pills to feed their addictions all over the State of Florida.

All of the above information is part of the Emergency Suspension Order pulling Troy Wubbenas License and is public information. The Florida Department of Health found all of the accusations to be credible and declared Troy Wubbena to be "an immediate serious threat to the health, safety, or welfare of the public".

thats not how it went i know the people involved and thats not how it went at all ur an idiot. you really think he went around bragging about what he was doing? he knew it was illegal he kept that shit under the radar for a long time and thats not how he got the kid(s) to sell them until you get your facts straight shut your mouth

o and it wasnt roxicet

Insead of looking like a fool you should take the time to read the Emergency Suspension Orders from the DOH on Troy Wubbena and Jeffrey Friedlander. "pimp" is a telling name for you. I guess you know so much about the inner workings of Troy Wubbenas Drug Empire because you were one of pill popping drug slaves/dealers. I believe the proper definition for "pimp" is "loser"

It just don't sound right that anyone would give $15 for roxicet which is 5mg oxy.
Mr.Yumm

APIT wrote:

Troy Wubbena is accused of giving a young man (18) that was a friend of his sons (17) Roxicet (which is a very strong pain killer and is often abused by kids trying to get high) when he was at Troy Wubbenas house visiting. Troy Wubbena, practicing under the Supervison of Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander, kept giving him the pills for free until he was addicted. Once the kid was addicted, Troy Wubbena told him to buy the pills for 15.00 each. When the kid had spent all of his money and could no longer afford to feed the addiction that Troy Wubbena created, Troy Wubbena made him sell the pills for 15.00 each on the streets. Troy Wubbena is said to have made 3000.00 a day just from this one drug slave that he created. Troy Wubbena bragged that he had created other drug addicts that sold his pills to feed their addictions all over the State of Florida.
All of the above information is part of the Emergency Suspension Order pulling Troy Wubbenas License and is public information. The Florida Department of Health found all of the accusations to be credible and declared Troy Wubbena to be "an immediate serious threat to the health, safety, or welfare of the public".

OMG Apit (aka Armpit) STILL has a H.O. for Wubbena and Friedlander!
What's in this for you Armpit????

Raving Nut World. I see you are still aiding and abeting the crimnals of this world. Troy Wubbena and Jeffrey Friedlander basically abuse children by getting them addicted to strong Painkillers and then have them sell drugs on them street and you are fine with that.

You are truly a very sick indivdual.

Get help and put down the crack pipe.

New Court Papers on Troy Wibbena and Jeffrey Friedlander

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Actually Troy wubbena is my friends father, and I know everyone allegedly involved. This is about a little boy named alex b. Who got roped for trafficking in oxycodone and not even armed trafficking who couldn't take responsibility for his own actions and copped out by putting the blame where it didn't belong. I don't care what your post about a "drug slave" says this is about a little boy who can't man up trying to make himself look like a victim and anyone who says anything else is simply misinformed

Anonymous - Are you one of the underaged friends of Troy Wubbenas son who were taking "Roxies" (per the Florida DOH suspension order for Troy Wubbenas license) that were supplied by Troy Wubbena? Anyhow, this will all be resolved soon. Troy Wubbena, who has already lost his license, and Jeffrey Friedlander are scheduled to go on trial for 13 Federal Grand Jury Felony charges on the 9th of November. They each face up to 20 years in prison.

And when you plug your ears to the real story from people who would know like me and apparently "pimp" you make your self look like a jerk by believing the story told by someone trying to make himself look like a victim your quote drug slave who was really s kid trying to mske money and couldn't do his time your the ignoramous

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Anonymous - Troy Wubbena just got a whole slew of new charges for Medicare Fraud. His arraignment on the New Grand Jury Indictments is scheduled for the 29th of this month. Troy Wubbenas son, your friend, is currently facing seperate felony drug charges in Penellas County and will next be in court on the 30th of November. Carl Ehresman has flipped, has agreed today to a plea agreement and is now scheduled to testify against Troy Wubbena, Jeffrey Friedlander and his wife Sarah Ehresman.

THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING. TROY WUBBENA AND JEFFREY FRIEDLANDER WILL BE SEEING NEW PATIENTS FROM THEIR CELL IN THE FEDERAL PRISON FOR THE NEXT 20 - 30 YEARS.

Please put the pill bottle down. I am so sorry that your supplier is no longer able to hook you up.

Listen you deaf ass I'm not confirming or denying the acusations brought against my friends what I'm telling you is the sob story about drug slaves is a story cooked up in the mind of a scared little boy in a police interogation room to save his own ass. That's what people like this kid do . But I have to ask you since you aparretly have no ties to this case why is your thumb up your ass about it

APIT wrote:

Anonymous - Troy Wubbena just got a whole slew of new charges for Medicare Fraud. His arraignment on the New Grand Jury Indictments is scheduled for the 29th of this month. Troy Wubbenas son, your friend, is currently facing seperate felony drug charges in Penellas County and will next be in court on the 30th of November. Carl Ehresman has flipped, has agreed today to a plea agreement and is now scheduled to testify against Troy Wubbena, Jeffrey Friedlander and his wife Sarah Ehresman.
THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING. TROY WUBBENA AND JEFFREY FRIEDLANDER WILL BE SEEING NEW PATIENTS FROM THEIR CELL IN THE FEDERAL PRISON FOR THE NEXT 20 - 30 YEARS.
Please put the pill bottle down. I am so sorry that your supplier is no longer able to hook you up.

Anonymous - Profanity is always the last resort of a feeble mind.

Read the latest news about your drug source below. Sorry, no more "Roxies" for you.

LAKELAND | A federal grand jury has lodged additional charges against Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander and three staff members arrested with him in April on charges of conspiring to dispense addictive painkillers.

They worked at the Neurology and Pain Centers in Lakeland, Tampa, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Jacksonville and Orlando. A hearing is scheduled Oct. 29 for arraignment on a "superseding indictment," basically taking the place of the earlier one, that adds accusations of Medicare fraud and retains the previous allegations of improperly distributing painkillers.

The arraignment is scheduled for Friedlander, physician assistant Troy Wubbena and employee Sarah Ehresman, according to court documents.

A fourth defendant, Carl Ehresman, an emergency medical technician, has accepted a plea agreement.

The agreement calls for him to plead guilty to conspiracy to "knowingly and intentionally distribute and dispense, and cause the distribution and dispensing of" the prescription drugs. Several charges against him would be dropped and he would testify in ongoing federal proceedings in that case.

A hearing on the plea agreement is scheduled Thursday in Tampa before Magistrate Judge Thomas G. Wilson, who also scheduled to preside at the Oct. 29 hearing.

Friedlander - board certified in internal medicine, neurology, pain medicine and vascular neurology - was the only one legally allowed to prescribe the controlled substances named in the indictment.

But the indictment contends the defendants used pre-signed, blank prescription forms on which people other than Friedlander filled in the controlled substances and dosages being prescribed.

Oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone and alprazolam are the drugs they mostly used, according to the indictment filed earlier this month. The first three are powerful, highly addictive painkillers. Alprazolam, better known as Xanax, is for anxiety caused by depression and for anxiety and panic disorders.

A jury trial once set for Nov. 9 for all defendants has been rescheduled for February.

The indictment accuses Friedlander and Wubbena of conspiring with others to defraud Medicare by filing claims for services that weren't given. It says they billed for procedures with higher payment rates when lower-paid, less complex procedures actually had been done.

That type of billing, called upcoding, results in health providers' receiving more money than they're eligible for under Medicare. The indictment says they began committing Medicare fraud about 2006, through methods such as:

Using massage therapists to do "physical therapy" that they weren't licensed to do, while billing Medicare for legitimate physical therapy done by licensed physical therapists under the supervision of a physician.

Billing for more extensive office visits than actually occurred, requesting the higher rate for medical evaluation and management for established patients when unlicensed, nonmedical people saw patients without supervision by the physician.

Routinely billing for a procedure called facet joint block injection that needs fluoroscopic guidance with imaging equipment into a point in the vertebrae when they actually gave "trigger point" injections into painful areas of muscle. Unlicensed, nonmedical people did the trigger-point injections without a doctor's presence and supervision, the indictment charges.

APIT wrote:

Troy Wubbena is accused of giving a young man (18) that was a friend of his sons (17) Roxicet (which is a very strong pain killer and is often abused by kids trying to get high) when he was at Troy Wubbenas house visiting. Troy Wubbena, practicing under the Supervison of Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander, kept giving him the pills for free until he was addicted. Once the kid was addicted, Troy Wubbena told him to buy the pills for 15.00 each. When the kid had spent all of his money and could no longer afford to feed the addiction that Troy Wubbena created, Troy Wubbena made him sell the pills for 15.00 each on the streets. Troy Wubbena is said to have made 3000.00 a day just from this one drug slave that he created. Troy Wubbena bragged that he had created other drug addicts that sold his pills to feed their addictions all over the State of Florida.
All of the above information is part of the Emergency Suspension Order pulling Troy Wubbenas License and is public information. The Florida Department of Health found all of the accusations to be credible and declared Troy Wubbena to be "an immediate serious threat to the health, safety, or welfare of the public".

all of this is bs this dude dont know what hes talkin about and should stick to his own. u otha 2 people in here should whatch what they be sayn cause people still gettn harrased over this and u never kno whos watchn

yall needa watch what u sayn in here, the dude postin this could be 5.0 and yall got this shit wrong tryn to make them out like junkie drug slaves, i look down on you.

And if they were 5-O... What would that matter?

The words Troy Wubbena and Jeffrey Fiedlander will never forget - Book Em Dano

APIT wrote:

The words Troy Wubbena and Jeffrey Fiedlander will never forget - Book Em Dano

Many of you do not understand that the STAFF of this clinc specifically, Sarah Ehresman was simply a paid hourly employee who was only there part time trained by the Doctor and Troy W. was simply doing what she was told to do by her supervisor and was not part of any conspiricy. I think everyone who works for any Doctors Office should stand up and pay attention that by being an hourly employee and not profiting in any way or having the education to know what these other people were doing behind the scenes, that you are in jepordy for just working in a medical office or hospital or clinc. The idea that an hourly employee just doing her job to make a living, can be charged with the same crimes as a Doctor or PA in absolutley awful.. This is the same as a factory worker on a line job being charged with conspiracy for his or her company doing illegal activities and not knowing this.. or yet not having the education to know what the specific laws are.. I think that she is a pawn in a bigger picture and now facing prision.. Can you people even imagine.. Every nurse, medicl assistant, clerk, billing coordinator, receptionist, etc should shout to the world that they are not doctors AND CANNOT CONTROL THESE OUT OF CONTROL DOCTORS FOR FEAR OF LOOSING THEIR JOBS .WHAT A SHAME!!!! NURSES , AND MEDICAL ASSISTANTS DO NOT HOLD LICENSES TO DISPENSE DRUGS.. THE DOCTOR DIRECTS HIS STAFF AND MANY OF THESE DOCTORS ARE AS-ES, YELL AT THEIR STAFF THREATEN TO FIRE THEM ETC.. AND SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR ARRESTING THE STAFF.. GO AFTER THE ONE WHO HAS THE POWER.. THE DOCTOR AND PA. WHAT GOOD DOES IT SERVE ANYONE TO PUT A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATED , OFFICE TRAINED MEDICAL ASSISTANT IN PRISON... WAITING FOR YOUR COMMENTS!!!!