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Dr. John Katsetos, a 53-year-old Fairfield resident, was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally dispensing oxycodone and other controlled substances well outside of the scope of accepted medical practice, and for defrauding government healthcare programs.
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Dr. John Katsetos, a 53-year-old Fairfield resident, was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally dispensing oxycodone and other controlled substances well outside of the scope of accepted medical practice, and for defrauding government healthcare programs.

U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant imposed the sentence in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 1, 2023.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Dr. Katsetos practiced medicine for more than 20 years, most recently out of offices located at 90 Morgan Street in Stamford and 353 Bridgeport Avenue in Milford.

The investigation, which included the use of undercover law enforcement personnel, revealed that Dr. Katsetos failed to perform rudimentary examinations of patients to justify the controlled substances he prescribed, and that he had been warned by a doctor and several pharmacists, some of whom stopped filling his prescriptions, that he should stop prescribing oxycodone and other narcotic pain medications to certain patients who showed obvious signs of addiction.

The investigation further revealed that Dr. Katsetos’s conduct created opioid addictions in dozens of patients, led to the overdose death of a New York woman, and supplied individuals with a vast quantity of prescription pills that they illegally distributed to others.

From November 2011 to October 2013, Dr. Katsetos authorized more than 2 million dosage units of Schedule II through IV controlled substances to more than 2000 patients, making him the eighth highest prescriber of such controlled substances in Connecticut.

Dr. Katsetos was also found to have seen multiple patients at once and billed Medicare and Medicaid for individual visits for each of those patients.