Failing to disclose having prescriptions from another doctor for the similar drugs is misrepresentation, subterfuge and deception.
Those questionaires that patients fill out at the doctor's can be used against them.
That's the law in Florida.
If you want to stick your head in the sand, that's your right.
Any person who gets charged in doctor shopping for withholding information is also a candidate for prescription fraud in Florida. At least, that's the way it's been done since last year when doctor shopping became a felony.
The link you posted does not neccessarily bear that out. All the cases have discrepencies on between the counts of Doctor Shopping and fraud. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Without more information, it is uncertain what the fraud entails. I think it is more likely that these people were duplicating the prescrtiption since most were in the drug trafficing business also. It is hard to make money trafficing drugs if you have the overhead of a doctor's visit to pay for each time. I am not putting my head in the sand, I am just using logic. Do you have additional information?