This was not a crowning achievement for a career dentist. A Wisconsin dentist was found guilty of health care fraud for intentionally breaking patients’ teeth and claiming they needed crowns, prosecutors said Thursday. A federal grand jury convicted Scott Charmoli,…
Eighteen former NBA players were charged Thursday with pocketing about $2.5 million US illegally by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan in a scam that authorities said involved claiming fictitious medical and dental expenses. “The defendants’ playbook involved…
On Thursday, 19, two 15-year-old twin brothers were seized for impersonating dentists at a clandestine dental clinic in Sobral (CE). They serviced dental appliances. A complaint by the Regional Council of Dentistry (CRO) led to investigations into the clinic and…
As Veronica Wilhelm lay sedated in a dental chair, her dentist was being filmed riding a hoverboard while he extracted her tooth. Wilhelm says she didn’t know about the hoverboard, or that her procedure in July 2016 was captured on…
A Middle Tennessee dentist and his employee are facing federal fraud charges for running an alleged scheme to defraud healthcare benefit programs. 51-year-old Richard N. Schott owns and operates Dental Excellence, a practice with three Murfreesboro locations and one Lebanon.…
The Arizona dental board rejected calls from Governor Doug Ducey to take stronger action against a dentist facing criminal charges for falsifying his anesthesia credentials. At a public meeting Friday, board members defiantly called on the Governor’s Office to produce…
Governor Doug Ducey is demanding immediate answers and action from Arizona’s Dental Board after an ABC15 investigation revealed a Valley dentist obtained a general anesthesia permit using documents multiple people and organizations said are fake and fraudulent. In a letter…
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