Doctor and Wife Team Indicted
A 65 page indictment against a Kansas physician and his nurse wife alleges that they and their assistants wrote unlawful prescriptions for narcotic painkillers, muscle relaxers and other drugs such as Fentanyl, Methadone, Morphine and Oxycodone. A Topeka, Kansas grand jury returned the 34-count indictment against Dr. Stephen J. Schneider, 54, and his wife, Nurse Linda K. Schneider, 49. Stephen Schneider has already had several medical malpractice suits filed against him in the past. This latest indictment charges them with conspiracy, unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, health care fraud, illegal monetary transactions and money laundering. The indictment alleges 56 of Stephen Schneider’s patients have died from accidental prescription drug overdoses in the last five years, but only four deaths have been attributed to drugs prescribed out of their clinic. However, Schneider has not been charged with the death of these patients. The indictment also says that Schneider Medical Clinic operated seven days a week and was open for 11 hours daily. Patients were scheduled 10 minutes apart and the clinic billed more than $4 million to health benefit programs. Some of his patients knew him as “Schneider the Writer”, “the pill man” and “the candy man.”
