Posted 3/8/23

A Tennessee doctor and his wife were each sentenced to 20 years in prison for unlawfully distributing opioids and defrauding insurers through their Alabama clinics that no longer exist.

Mark Murphy, and Jennifer Murphy, both 66, owned and operated North Alabama Pain Services in Decatur and Madison, both locations closed in early 2017.

Mark served as the sole doctor at the locations and evidence showed that some patients went months or years without seeing him during their monthly visits even though they continuously received opioid prescriptions he pre-signed.

Over a 5-year span, Mark wrote prescriptions for more than 10 million opioid pills and millions of oxycodone 30 mg tablets.

During the same time frame, Jennifer, who helped manage the clinics, ordered tens of millions of dollars of unnecessary items and services that were paid for by taxpayer-funded and private insurance programs.