A Slatington man has been charged with multiple counts of identity theft, forgery and other charges after stealing information from a doctor to treat patients, according to Palmerton police.

Adam Herman, 42, is accused of presenting himself as a medical doctor, treating, and prescribing elderly individuals in several living assistant/nursing homes, police said in an affidavit of probable cause.

Police say Herman used the identity of Dr. Garry Carbone.

Carbone told police that he and Herman had entered into a business agreement in June 2022 to open a traveling physician’s office based out of the 100 block of Delaware Ave. in Palmerton identified as Circle of Care.

Carbone told police that on Sept. 10, 2022, he fell ill and was admitted into St. Luke’s Hospital, Coaldale campus for a medical emergency which led to an organ transplant in January 2023 and left him unable to fully practice medicine through May 2023.

Police learned that during the time of Carbone’s hospital stay, Herman obtained Carbone’s cellphone which he used to issue and prescribe medication.

Police said Herman traveled to several personal care homes including one in Carbon County advising administrators, staff and residents that he was “taking care of Dr. Carbone’s patients while he was out.”

Police said Herman held himself out as a licensed medical doctor and proceeded to “treat patients.”

Herman used Carbone’s identity and drug authorization to prescribe drugs.

Police said the prescriptions were all Schedule II prescriptions to a woman later identified as Marie Herman who is Herman’s mother and not a patient of Carbone’s.

Police said that Adam Herman was terminating essential care functions to elderly residents.

Herman faces charges on 28 counts each of acquisition or obtaining of possession of a controlled substance, identity theft, forgery, and forging prescriptions; along with four counts of possession with intent to manufacture or deliver.

He is in the Carbon County Correctional Facility, with a request for bail denied, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing July 19 before District Judge William J. Kissner of Palmerton.