Doctor Pleads Guilty, Receives 2 Years for Illegally Selling Drug Prescriptions

Posted on 1/9/2026

Defendant: Mark Samuel Fettman

An Oregon resident licensed to practice medicine in Ohio will go to prison for two years and forfeit more than half a million dollars for operating a felonious drug trafficking scheme.
 
Judge Carl Aveni sentenced Mark Samuel Fettman, 78, to two years and ordered forfeitures of more than $570,000.  Judge Aveni ordered Fettman to begin serving his sentence
 
Today, Fettman pleaded guilty to several felony counts, including attempted engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, attempted money laundering and drug trafficking.
 
Case Background
 
On Sept. 2, 2020, the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy secured authorization to conduct undercover operations to investigate complaints that Fettman was unlawfully prescribing Suboxone to his patients and charging $290.00 in cash for each prescription.
 
An agent posing as a patient recorded four office visits with Fettman. In each visit, Fettman prescribed a 28-day supply of Suboxone in exchange for $290 in cash with no required examination, diagnosis or counseling.
 
After securing a search warrant, agents discovered large amounts of cash and a computer containing patient records, which revealed that Fettman had repeatedly provided Suboxone prescriptions in exchange for cash without any required medical treatment on numerous occasions.
 
Fettman was arrested and taken into custody on Oct. 15, 2021.