Dentist Finder San Diego » insurance fraud http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog What's New in Dental News Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:40:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 NY dentist sues for $75M over Medicaid fraud charges http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/ny-dentist-sues-for-75m-over-medicaid-fraud-charges/ http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/ny-dentist-sues-for-75m-over-medicaid-fraud-charges/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:01:50 +0000 Dentist Finder http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/?p=748 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 …

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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 …

]]> http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/arizona-dental-office-manager-sentenced-for-fraud/feed/ 0 N.J. dental office manager pleads guilty to claims fraud http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/n-j-dental-office-manager-pleads-guilty-to-claims-fraud/ http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/n-j-dental-office-manager-pleads-guilty-to-claims-fraud/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:45:00 +0000 Dentist Finder http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/?p=524 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 …

]]> http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/n-j-dental-office-manager-pleads-guilty-to-claims-fraud/feed/ 0 NY dentist accused of insurance fraud http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/ny-dentist-accused-of-insurance-fraud/ http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/ny-dentist-accused-of-insurance-fraud/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:03:32 +0000 Dentist Finder http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/?p=309 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 …

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