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by Chris Palmer Published Sept. 23, 2025, 1:58 p.m. ET

A former Bucks County doctor who was convicted earlier this year of pushing patients to accept “goody bags” of medically unnecessary sedatives so that he could recoup millions in fraudulent billings was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison.

Neil K. Anand, 48, was found guilty by a federal jury in April of requiring patients to accept bags of drugs they didn’t want or need in order to receive the pain-killing opioid prescriptions they were actually seeking when they visited his Bensalem clinic.

Anand provided the superfluous drugs without sufficiently evaluating patients, or in some cases without providing instructions or dosage inf

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