Some stories never die. Here we are a decade later still talking about “Crooked Teeth” and the outcome of all those stories that ran on WFAA alleging hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicaid fraud committed by Texas orthodontists and dentists. … Read More
Online research has found that lawyers for Joshua Lafountain held a high-powered fundraiser in August of 2016 for the current trial judge in the case, Judge Maricela Moore of Dallas District Court 162. The event held at the offices of … Read More
More details have emerged about Joshua Lafountain, the relator in a Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act qui tam lawsuit filed against 71 dental organizations and dentists in 2016. The case is now before a judge in Dallas County District Court. … Read More
Stuart Bowen, the inspector general of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, told The Dallas Morning News that a whistleblower alleging Medicaid fraud at Texas Planned Parenthood clinics spurred the agency’s investigation. The Daily Signal previously reported that inspectors from the … Read More
Dallas TV station WFAA is losing its long-time, award-winning investigative reporter Byron Harris to retirement. Harris announced a few weeks ago that he would be leaving the station in October, after spending 40 years with WFAA. It goes without saying … Read More
May 12, 2015 — The Small Smiles dental chain has agreed to pay $39 million according to the proposed settlement filed in bankruptcy court in Nashville, TN. The lawsuits included claims for alleged “unnecessary, inappropriate, unsafe, and excessive dental procedures” … Read More
The Corporate Whistleblower Center says, “We think there are enormous opportunities for in-home healthcare, or managers at hospice companies to cash in on lucrative federal whistleblower rewards, if they possess well documented proof the employer is overbilling Medicare, or Medicaid … Read More
By Donna Domino, Features Editor October 9, 2013 — A jury has found that Small Smiles dentists did not perform unnecessary dental procedures on a young boy at one of the chain’s clinics in New York. The judge found that … Read More
A Travis County judge has awarded more than $22,000 in legal fees to an Amarillo law firm that helped expose more than $1 million in Medicaid fraud at a local orthodontics clinic. Amarillo attorney Phil Russ, who represented three former … Read More
This past week State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) Judge Roy G. Scudday ruled that Christine Ellis and her qui tam lawyers had no standing to appear in a hearing regarding an HHSC-Office of Inspector General payment hold placed on … Read More
The following is information on upcoming court hearings that are vitally important to this whole dental Medicaid provider issue. On August 13 at 9:00 a.m., an HHSC Appeals Judge will hear M&M Orthodontics of San Antonio’s Plea to the Jurisdiction. … Read More
Last week, Antoine Dental Centers of Houston and Harlingen Family Dentistry of Harlingen brought a motion before the Travis County District Court to unseal the massive Christine Ellis qui tam suit filing that in redacted form appears to have 46 … Read More
As was reported in the media, on June 25th, 2012, Texas orthodontist Christine Ellis filed a qui tam suit against dental chain All Smiles with the Dallas firm of Waters and Kraus acting on her behalf. Ellis has been one of the … Read More
Texas Dentists for Medicaid Reform questions why Texas taxpayers will pay up to $500 an hour to Dallas law firm Waters & Kraus when legislators have already approved monies for OIG staff expansion; a trend if applied to all cases … Read More
