Officials said he voluntarily surrendered his DEA licenses and agreed to a 20-year exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid and all other federal health care programs.

He'd prescribe controlled substances without a legitimate purpose and wouldn't follow the typical course of professionally prescribing the medication, officials said

A Connecticut psychiatrist has agreed to pay $455,439 to resolve allegations that he issued large amounts of medically unnecessary prescriptions and submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, federal and state officials announced.