Owings Mills Pain Doctor Charged In Oxycodone Conspiracy

BALTIMORE, MD — A doctor who has an office in Owings Mills has been charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense oxycodone, according to court records.

Norman Rosen was charged with the criminal offense on Wednesday in federal court, records show. Prosecutors allege he prescribed oxycodone "outside the scope of the professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose."

Rosen was the medical director of Rosen-Hoffberg Rehabilitation and Pain Management, a clinic with offices in Owings Mills and Towson specializing in treating chronic pain from age, injury or other conditions.

In 2017, Rosen was reprimanded by the Maryland State Board of Physicians for unprofessional conduct, stemming from lack of supervision of opioid patients and not accounting for patient risk factors.

His practice was reportedly raided in 2018 by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In 2019, Rosen's medical license expired, according to WBAL.

His partner and associate medical director Howard Hoffberg, who lives in Reisterstown, was sentenced in February to serve eight months for taking $66,000 in bribes from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a fentanyl-based drug. The kickback scheme involved a drug designed to treat breakthrough pain in cancer patients, and prosecutors said Hoffberg prescribed it at the practice for patients not suffering from cancer who were on federal insurance programs.

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