Accusations of prescribing fentanyl and codeine “inappropriately” to an opioid abuser for six months led to a Miramar doctor being fined $10,000 this month along with other punitive actions by Florida’s Board of Medicine.
Dr. Claude Romulus will not only have to pay that $10,000 fine, he’ll need to cough up $7,966 in reimbursing Florida Department of Health case costs. Along with money, Romulus will pay with time: a three-hour continuing medical education course in record keeping and three five-hour continuing medical education courses in drug prescribing; risk management; and laws, rules and ethics.
According to the Department of Health, Romulus has been licensed in Florida since Sept. 24, 2004, without previous disciplinary issues. He returned neither a phone message at his office or nor an email to the email address listed by the Department of Health…