Second Question of the Day March 20, 2015 How might the federal criminal health care fraud theory of prescribing narcotics and other controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the bounds of professional medical practice be used in cases where compounded formulas are prescribed to the masses of patients rather than each patient receiving a patient-specific formulas made uniquely for them? How might it be used in cases that don't document that commerically available alternatives have been tried or or at least documented the reason they cannot be tried? What are the defenses, if any, to such a claim?