Mahmood Ahmad, MD, a pain medicine physician with a practice in Anchorage, Alaska, had his medical license suspended by the Alaska State Medical Board after he was accused of prescribing large amounts of painkillers for cash, according to an Alaska Dispatch News report.
Dr. Ahmad has been under state investigation since last year, after pharmacists raised concerns about how many controlled substances he had been prescribing — more than 700 in five months, according to the report.
The medical board declared Dr. Ahmad "a clear and immediate danger to the public health and safety if he continues to practice medicine," the ADN reported.
The CEO of Dr. Ahmad's pain clinic, Kash Siddique, told ADN Dr. Ahmad would appeal the medical board's decision and said "these are just allegations made by an outside independent physician about how Alaska runs its medical practice."
Before the Alaska investigation began, the Arkansas State Medical Board was investigating Dr. Ahmad, also for prescribing an excessive amount of controlled painkillers, but those charges were dropped.