Dr. Nora Meaney-Elman, a Williamsville physician, has agreed to pay $60,000 to resolve allegations that she violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to safeguard the token and password she used to e-prescribe controlled substances. Between September 2015 and March 2018, Dr. Meaney-Elman failed to safeguard her controlled substance prescribing token and password. As a result, her employee, Kristy Brucz, used the token and password to write 156 illegal prescriptions for controlled substances. Brucz wrote the prescriptions in her own name and in the names of 12 other individuals, both real and fictitious, and had the prescriptions filled at various area pharmacies. Kristy Brucz was convicted criminally of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and was sentenced in September 2020 to serve two years’ probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,911.23.
