Colorado Doctor Jeffrey Kesten Sentenced To Prison For Receiving Pharmaceutical Company's Bribes

By Logan Smith, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) — A Colorado physician will spend two years behind bars for prescribing a fentanyl-based spray product to patients while receiving approximately $344,000 in bribes and “kickbacks” from the maker of the drug.

Dr. Jeffrey Kesten, 61, formerly of Evergreen, was sentenced Feb. 28 to 24 months in federal prison by a federal judge in Denver.

Per case documents, Kesten conspired with employees of Insys Therapeutics, the manufacturer of Subsys, a powerful sublingual fentanyl spray approved by the Federal Drug Administration in 2012 to treat sudden flare-ups of pain in cancer patients.

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