Levittown Doctor Arrested On Multiple Charges For Allegedly Illegally Prescribing Drugs

Dr. Kenneth Fox and the office where he used to practice. Credit: Bucks County DA’s Office/Google Maps

A longtime Levittown doctor was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges related to alleged illegal prescriptions following a year-long investigation by detectives.

Dr. Kenneth Fox, 55, of Jenkintown, Montgomery County, who previously lived in Newtown Township, was charged with 12 counts each of administration of a controlled substance by a practitioner and furnishing false or fraudulent records, and three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, according to Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.

The arrest came more than a year after a complaint reported by Middletown Township police to the Bucks County Detectives in November 2023. It followed a report to township police that Fox doing what Bucks County District Attorney’s Office called “suspicious and questionable practices when seeing” patients.

Fox, who practiced in the Levittown section of Middletown Township until recently, allegedly continued to see patients in the basement of his office building on Frosty Hollow Road and Veterans Highway after his firing from Jefferson Health.

Investigators detailed in court papers that Fox operated in a questionable manner, did not schedule appointments, and accepted payments through mobile apps.

Patients would be seated in a hallway in the basement and were seen briefly for a fee of $130, authorities said.

In court papers, investigators alleged that patients would receive a 30-day supply of Suboxone with minimal or no consultation.

In February 2024, detectives used undercover investigators and informants who visited Fox, each receiving prescriptions of Suboxone, a medication typically used to treat opioid addiction, authorities said.

Two of the undercover officers reported that Fox left his door open while meeting with patients and they could hear that the doctor didn’t talk about health issues, according to court papers.

The visits by undercover law enforcement took place between Feb. 10 and June 4, authorities said.

Using the Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitor Program (PDMP), detectives discovered that Fox was prescribing Suboxone to 80 patients during the time frame of the probe, authorities said.

On June 24, detectives served a search warrant on Fox’s basement office and discovered what appeared to be incomplete patient files with the majority of the notes in the files being prescriptions, court papers stated.

Fox allegedly told an investigator that he would often use his memory to recall patient information instead of making a file.

Investigators said they seized 80 patient records and audio files from the office.

Dr. Stephen Thomas, a pain and disability management expert, reviewed some of the patient files and audio recordings from the visits for law enforcement.

“Dr. Fox was, in my opinion, selling the prescription as opposed to providing a professional service in the usual course of professional practice. The medical records for these individuals were grotesquely deficient in that they contained no significant medical information for any of the patients I reviewed,” he said, according to court papers.

As LevittownNow.com reported in 2022, Fox was fined $489,025 by federal authorities for failing to maintain complete and accurate records of controlled substances, failing to keep required receipt and dispensing records, failing to perform biennial inventories, and writing prescriptions “for stock.”

The 2022 settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) followed an investigation into his records. He was ordered to follow new “compliance obligations significantly more stringent than those in the applicable laws and regulations” for three years.

At the time the 2022 settlement was announced, Fox did not comment.

According to his Linkedin, Fox has worked as a family doctor in Levittown since 1999.

Fox was placed in Bucks County Correctional Facility with bail set at 10 percent of $75,000 after his preliminary arraignment before District Judge Charles Jonas.

Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.

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