Doctor Shopping could equal Lawyer Shopping

Sep 25, 2015 at 09:11 am by bryan


A Cannon County woman is charged for the third time with doctor shopping for prescription drugs, using TennCare benefits as payment.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG), with the assistance of the Cannon County Sheriff's Office, have announced the arrest of Taylor R. Cantrell, 24, of Readyville. She is charged in a Cannon County indictment with using TennCare to visit multiple physicians in a short period of time in order to obtain controlled substances, with TennCare paying for either the clinical visit or the prescriptions.

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Cantrell was arrested in May after she was indicted by a Coffee County Grand Jury and charged with two counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance by doctor shopping. And just two months before that, in March, she was indicted in Warren County on four counts of using TennCare to obtain controlled substances by doctor shopping.

In all three incidents, Cantrell sought the treatment of several medical providers at various facilities in order to gain prescriptions for painkillers, including Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Tramadol and used TennCare as payment.

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