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FORBA Holdings LLC, the parent company of the nationwide pediatric dental chain “Small Smiles,” that serves low-income children insured by Medicaid will pay $24 million that will go to federal and state governments to settle accusations that it provided unnecessary and substandard services, the Justice Department announced.

The Justice Department claimed that the dental clinics performed unnecessary procedures, including removing teeth, x-rays, and pulpotomies and then charged Medicaid.

The government’s investigation into…

Tiffany Holmes (Source: St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office)

Tiffany Holmes, 20, of Chalmette, LA was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after the dentist reported finding unauthorized prescriptions for pain pills had been written using his office computer system.

Holmes was booked on eight counts of obtaining controlled dangerous substances by fraud and deceit, said police. She was booked on Jan. 5 and since then, five others — including her father, a brother, the…

Claire Batsell was sentenced 69 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft.

Claire Batsell, 25, of Brownsville Texas, pleaded guilty to charges related to identity theft and was sentenced to more than 5 years in federal prison. She was charged with one count of fraudulent use of dental patient identification information and one count of aggravated identity theft.

From May 2006 to July 2007, Batsell took money from the dental…

L&R Ultrasonic Cleaning System

A dispute between feuding Massachusetts dental partners has gotten ugly this week when one dentist reportedly sawed a piece of equipment in half, saying he was entitled to his share.

Police were called to the dentist office Jan. 11, after one partner in the dental practice came in to find half of a cleaning machine, (L&R Ultrasonic Machine Cleaner) in her part of the office. The other…