The former owner of a Hamilton pain clinic was sentenced to spend a decade in prison for illegally prescribing opioids and committing health care fraud. 55 year old Nilesh Jobalia of Cincinnati ran the Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief office in Hamilton from March of 2013 through December of 2017. He pleaded guilty to charges that he wrote perscriptions for fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine, and other medicines, sometimes without a doctors visit. Jobalia helped patients file over two million dollars in false claims with the Bureau of Worker's Compensation. He also recieved over $100,000 for participating in phony speaking engagements about a fentanyl spray. Jobalia was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Bureau of Worker's Comp.