Feds accuse flamboyant Manchester Doctor & a Grundy County clinic with fraud

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The United States government and the state of Tennessee have sued a Lenoir City chiropractor and a Manchester doctor, accusing them both of fraud and operating pill mills.

Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Nashville say the men are accused of defrauding Medicare and TennCare of over $1 million.

The suit names Matthew Anderson, a Lenoir City chiropractor, and David Florence, a doctor of osteopathy, from Manchester. Current telephone listings for both men were not publicly available.

Officials say Anderson operated four pain clinics, and at least one was a pill mill. Court documents say he reaped over $5 million from the clinics. They also say Dr. Florence was running an illegal prescription drug racket out of the Center for Advanced Medicine in Manchester.

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GRUETLI-LAAGER, Tenn. (WDEF) – The Daily News Journal reports that the main target of the suit is Anderson.

One of the four clinics he ran was in Gruetli Laager in Grundy County.

The Preferred Pain Center of Grundy County has since closed.

The suit alleges that Anderson recruited local doctors to front each of the clinics, which overcharged both Medicare and TennCare.

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MANCHESTER, Tenn. (WDEF) – Dr. Florence was one of the doctors recruited to front a clinic.

The suit alleges that Florence ran a pill mill out of his Center for Advanced Medicine in Manchester.

Dr. Florence served as the official doctor of the Coffee County Jail.

And he is a flamboyant character in the community.

See this promo for a failed reality show pilot based on his practice of medicine, called DocStar.