Medical office searched after doctor’s arrest

A doctor from New Hyde Park was arrested on Sept. 3 and charged with selling prescriptions for cash at his office at Kennedy Airport and at his medical practice at Sun Medical Care of Nassau, in Valley Stream, Newsday reported.

Gerald Surya, 45, was charged with 26 counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance after an investigation that began in 2012, the paper reported. Prosecutors said Surya charged $60 for an illegal prescription, and raised the price to $100 after his Kennedy Airport office was searched by investigators in July 2014.

Records showed that more than half of the prescriptions Surya wrote between Jan. 1, 2012 and Aug. 17, 2015 were for oxycodone, and others included Xanax, Vicodin and Percocet, according to Newsday.

Surya was accused of selling the prescriptions to a “select group of patients” at his Valley Stream and Kennedy Airport offices. He is an internist and senior aviation medical examiner, which makes him designated by the Federal Aviation Administration to perform medical examinations on pilots and issue medical certificates, according to the Associated Press.

He was not accused of selling prescriptions to any pilots, Newsday reported.

Surya was ordered held on $500,000 bail, cash or bond, by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson.