What's New in Dental News
13 Apr
New York dentist, Leonard Morse, DDS, who says his career was ruined by a Medicaid fraud suit filed by former state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will get a chance to clear his name, according to a story in the New York Daily News.
Dr. Morse filed a $75 million lawsuit claiming he was the victim of malicious prosecution in 2006 when Spitzer charged the dentist with filing more than …
16 Aug
51-year-old Kathy Salazar was sentenced in Superior Court to one year in prison and seven years probation for felony insurance fraud.
Salazar pleaded guilty to submitting false insurance claims for dental procedures that were never performed and then pocketing the insurance checks. Salazar was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and $88,408 in restitution to a St. Johns’ dentist she worked for more than 28 years.
Prosecutors say the case was …
9 Apr
The office manager of an East Brunswick, N.J., dental practice pleaded guilty to cheating insurers out of $45,000 by billing for services never rendered.
Magdy Rafla, 56, pled guilty to charge of second-degree health care claims fraud in a state Superior Court, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
Rafla, the billing manager at his wife’s dental practice, admitted that between Feb. 9, 2004, and June 14, 2007, he …
26 Oct
Joanne Baker, D.D.S.,51, was arraigned on a 13-count indictment charging her with grand larceny, insurance fraud, scheme to defraud and falsifying business records, all felonies.
Dr. Baker is accused of fraudulently billing Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (MetLife) for $13,000 over a 2 year starting in September 2006. About 18 patients came forward in 2008 to say Baker had billed MetLife for dental services she never provided.
She was arrested in …
