Levittown Doctor Avoids Trial With Plea After Prescription Investigation

A doctor who practiced in Levittown for more than two decades has avoided trial by pleading guilty to drug offenses stemming from a reported illicit prescription operation.

Dr. Kenneth Fox, 57, of Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, entered a guilty plea July 29 to two misdemeanor counts of purchase or receipt of a controlled substance by an unauthorized person. The plea was accepted by Bucks County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Raymond McHugh during a pre-trial conference.

Fox was scheduled to go to trial in the case this week.

McHugh sentenced Fox to three years of probation, with supervision transferred to York County. As part of the sentence, Fox must surrender his federal drug license and enter a sober facility after a hospital stay.

Fox, who previously resided in Newtown Township and Montgomery County’s Jenkintown, was arrested in December 2024.

The doctor was originally charged with 12 counts of administration of a controlled substance by a practitioner, 12 counts of furnishing false or fraudulent records, and three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

The investigation began in November 2023 after Middletown Township police received reports regarding questionable medical practices.

Investigators reported finding that following his termination from Jefferson Health, Fox operated out of a basement office at Frosty Hollow Road and Veterans Highway in the Levittown section of Middletown Township.

According to court papers, Fox ran an unscheduled, walk-in operation where patients waited in a basement hallway.

For a $130 fee paid via mobile payment applications, patients received a 30-day prescription of Suboxone, an opioid addiction medication, with little to no medical consultation, according to township police and the Bucks County Detectives.

Undercover officers and informants visited the location between Feb. 10 and June 4, 2024, obtaining Suboxone prescriptions, according to authorities.

Data from the Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitoring Program showed Fox prescribed Suboxone to 80 individuals during the course of the investigation.

Detectives executed a search warrant in 2024 and seized audio files and 80 patient records, which largely consisted of prescription notes, police said.

Court records stated Fox admitted to relying on his memory rather than maintaining formal patient files.

In court filings, medical expert Dr. Stephen Thomas evaluated the seized materials and concluded that Fox was “selling the prescription as opposed to providing a professional service in the usual course of professional practice.” Thomas noted that patient records were “grotesquely deficient.”

In 2022, federal authorities fined him $489,025 for failing to maintain required dispensing records, failing to conduct biennial inventories, and writing prescriptions “for stock,” placing him under strict three-year compliance monitoring.

State records show Fox’s Pennsylvania medical license remains active through Oct. 31 and it was renewed months prior to his 2024 arrest.

Fox had practiced family medicine in Levittown since 1999, according to an online resume.