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This individual (Kimberly Kost/NP) who saw me on a two year old appointment (02/03/05), wrote a false and damaging report, which was used against me on 10/29/07, causing me to be refused much needed medical treatment prescribed by a Louisville Neurosurgeon. She is (or rather was) a Nurse Practitioner; employed by Pain Management of Southern Indiana. She used her position and standing, to facilitate a barrage of written lies & accusations; designed to cover up her own hostile and demeaning physical examination of me on 2/3/05. Since this episode, and after I filed against her and the clinic (with the State of Indiana), she has since, hooked 'em up to Richmond, VA. She no longer works for the clinic, but the clinic still must feel a need to "hide her away" .... because they are not responding to the Office of Civil Rights. Ms Kost, is a derogatory and unprofessional Nurse Practitioner, and is currently without valid Nursing License/s at this time. She should never have been working in this industry, due to her non-existent people skills and hard-core disposition. People need compassion when they're sick, not corporal attitude. The bottom line is, that Pain Management of Southern Indiana apparently doesn't mind hiring people like Ms. Kost. Plain and simple, she is "nurse from hell".

Other related Complaints:

1./ Indiana Office of Civil Rights 2./ Pain Management of Southern Indiana

3./ Dr. Kimal K. Tiwari (Owner of Pain Management of Southern Indiana)

What a farce! You realize it as soon as you see the forms you fill in when you get there; filled with, "you will", "you must" and a variety of other demanding and belittling additions. Once you do get in to see someone, they talk to you like you are (probably) a drug freak looking for a "fix". The treatment you receive there, is equally as uncomfortable as the pain that brought you there to start with. With the kind of treatment and degradation your receive from these jerks, it's no wonder good people still have to search for relief on the street. Their basic mission statement appears to be that "all people are drug seekers". They even tried to prescribe Bextra to me, the same week it was in the National News - "earmarked" for being pulled from the market due to the fatal effects it was having on people. The nurse practitioner was infuriated with my refusal to try it. The drug was (in fact), pulled from the market soon after my appointment.

Other related Complaints:

1./ Indiana Office of Civil Rights 2./ Dr. Kimal K. Tiwari

This guy has no class; he doesn't have the dignity to return a simple phone call, in an effort to work out a solution to the justified complaint/s I've had with his business: Pain Management Of Southern Indiana (and the way I was treated there). He's totally responsible for the massive wrongdoing to me at his clinic in New Albany, IN on 10/29/07; by the actions of his employee Kimberly Dawn Kost. Instead of issuing a well-deserved apology to me in the beginning (and rescheduling an appointment), he hides behind what now is going to be, a long winded Civil Rights Process (Case # 08-78022). His deranged and utterly hostile nurse employee, Kimberly Kost, has skipped town and moved to Richmond, Virginia. He, and/or his business representatives are not responding to the request/s from Office of Civil Rights (supposedly made by Alyce Hilden), and the whole thing is just sitting there doing nothing. To make matters worse, his office has moved yet again (in a two year period), and still (according to OCR) "has not yet responded" to my complaints and OCR's requests. He's dodging a Government Agency which is supposed to be protecting me (yeah, right!). If you or I did it, we'd be in court or jail; but of course, he's a Doctor .... so I guess he's exempt huh?

Other related Complaints:

1./ Indiana Office of Civil Rights 2./ Pain Management of Southern Indiana

Source- http://newsandtribune.com/local/x657339665/New-Albany-doctor-indicted-on-fraud-illegal-drug-distribution

Father of Clark County man blames doctor for son’s death!

James “Jamie” Armburgey went for an appointment to the Pain Management Center of Southern Indiana in New Albany on May 27, 2009. The next day, according to his family, the 43-year-old from Marysville, passed out at his girlfriend’s house in Henryville. He was pronounced dead two days later.

“I have proof that [the doctor] had him on six different prescriptions. He was on OxyContin and different drugs. He went for his appointment, and they increased his dosage 100 percent from what he was taking for pain,” his father, Arthur, said. “He went to his girlfriend’s home and he passed out and fell out of a car. He was unconscious, and he never regained consciousness until he died.”

Amburgey had six drugs prescribed to him by his doctor at the Pain Management Center. He had prescriptions to take more than 500 pills per month. Medicare paid $4,808 in five months for Amburgey’s prescriptions with him paying more than $2,000, according to his records.

The Kentucky medical examiner’s final diagnosis report lists Amburgey’s cause of death as “multiple substance intoxication” with an enlarged heart as a possible contributing factor.

The report states Amburgey had Xanax, Lortab, Vicodin, Oxycodone metabolite, OxyContin and Percodan in his system at time of death. According to records his father kept, those were drugs Amburgey had been prescribed.

“The doctor should have known that six different drugs was too much for one human,” he said.

Now the medical doctor who owns the Pain Management Center along State Street in New Albany — along with offices in Bloomington and Indianapolis — has been indicted by a federal grand jury with health care fraud, health care fraud resulting in serious bodily injury and 11 counts of unlawful drug distribution.

The indictment alleges that Kamal Tiwari, 58, required patients to undergo injection procedures, such as facet blocks, trigger point injections, radio frequency ablations and epidurals, that were not for legitimate medical purposes as a condition of receiving narcotic controlled substances.

The indictment lists 16 patients that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana alleges were drug-dependent and were prescribed controlled substances in such dosage frequencies as part of a scheme to convince them to submit to unwanted and unnecessary medical procedures.

The indictment also alleges that Tiwari defrauded health care benefit programs such as Medicare, Indiana Medicaid and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. Those three companies alone paid Tiwari $21,617,687.

“The allegations in this matter go well beyond the health care billing fraud we usually see. In this situation, a physician not only used patients as pawns for profit, but actually compromised the health of some of Indiana’s most vulnerable citizens,” said Lamont Pugh III, special agent in charge of Office of the Inspector General’s Chicago region.

Tiwari’s attorney, Steve Romines, said he entered a not guilty plea and looks forward to taking the case to trial.

“There are no specific tests you can run for chronic pain,” Romines said. “You have to rely on some of what patients tell you. [Tiwari] treated everyone in an attempt to help them.”

Arthur Amburgey believes Tiwari never tried to ensure his son was taking what was prescribed. He knows his son was dealing pills, but he was never required to take a urine test in the several months he had been a patient at the center.

“The one time I went there, the people in there, you could tell they were not there for legal drugs,” he said.

Tiwari was arrested Thursday in Bloomington without incident.

According to assistant U.S. attorneys Winfield D. Ong, Bradley P. Shepard and Shelese Woods — who are handling the case for the government — Tiwari faces a maximum of 10 or 20 year in prison on each of the 15 charges he faces and fines as much as $1 million for each count of drug distribution.

“Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem in Indiana, made worse by physicians who abuse their position of trust by overprescribing addictive painkillers to patients who may well be addicts,” Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said.

Tiwari has been the subject of two complaints from the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. He was accused in 2007 of reusing syringes at a Bloomington hospital, putting hundreds of people at risk of intravenous diseases.

Tiwari can still practice medicine in Indiana, but his license to write prescriptions has been suspended.

Romines said the Pain Management Center in New Albany will continue to operate under different leadership.

Went to the clinc to help w/ my Pain Mgmnt. The Dr. pretty much accused me of being an addict and of selling my medication which neither are true. When he asked me to stand up to check me out, I, thinking he was going to look at my back where my issues are turned so he cd examine my back. He then very rudely asked where I was going, which confused me very much. He then sd "I didn't ask you to turn around. Are you trained?" He then proceeded to ask my what my occupation was and sd, "Now be honest, you'd be surprised what I know." And then told me the only reason my Dr sent me to him was because I was and addict!!!! I have a disorder in which the discs in my back are degenerating. It is a very, very painful disorder, in which it's hard for me to even get out of bed some mornings. I was sent to the center in hopes that they would be able to HELP me with my pain. NOT accuse me of being an addict and making me feel like a low life junkie!! If anybody was thinking about using the clinic I would be very cautious in doing so, and be prepared to be looked down upon

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