Bucks County doc kept prescribing meds after firing, cops say

☑️ Dr. Kenneth Fox was fired by Jefferson Health

☑️ Patients kept seeing him in the basement of his old office

☑️ Records show he prescribed Suboxone 80 times in four months

MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A doctor fired from Jefferson Health kept seeing patients and prescribing Suboxone from an office in the basement.

Bucks County Jennifer Schorn said Dr. Kenneth Fox, 55, of Jenkintown, continued to see patients after his firing in an office in the basement of a building on Frosty Hollow Road where he had worked. A patient became suspicious when Fox's office had moved in the summer of 2023 and patients who lined up in the hallway didn't have appointments, according to Schor

During each visit Fox would sit at his desk and charge $130 for the visit, the patient told investigators. After using an app to make payment the patient would be given a prescrption for a 30-day supply of Suboxone.

Undercover detectives and "confidential informants" went to Fox's office several times between Feb. 10, 2024 and June 4, 2024 and were prescribed Suboxone each time via email. Schorn said that Fox left the door open to his office and could be heard issuing prescriptions to other patients. No medical discussion took place with the patients.

Previous prescription problems

Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitor Program (PDMP) records show that Fox prescribed Suboxone to 80 patients during the time of the investigation. Patient files from the 80 visits and audio from the undercover visits were reviewed by Dr. Stephen Thomas, an expert in pain and disability management and controlled substance management.

“Dr. Fox was, in my opinion, selling the prescription as opposed to providing a professional service in the usual course of professional practice. The medical records for these individuals were grotesquely deficient in that they contained no significant medical information for any of the patients I reviewed," Fox told investigators.

Fox was charged with 12 counts each of administration of any controlled substance by a practitioner and furnishing false or fraudulent records and three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility under $75,000 bail, 10 percent.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) records show Fox was fined $489,025 in Nov. 2022 for failing to maintain complete and accurate records of controlled substances, failing to keep required receipt and dispensing records, failing to perform biennial inventories, and writing prescriptions “for stock.”

Suboxone is a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings. A complete treatment program also includes counseling and behavioral therapy.

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