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Whistleblower Has Outstanding Texas Warrants Since 2017

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.  Allegations fuel case but no evidence As TDMR previously reported, Lafountain, in a deposition earlier this year, admitted to never working for any of those he accuses of Medicaid fraud, never going inside their offices, never talking to any of their patients, never seeing any patient charts that would lead to such allegations. He brought … [Read More...]

Despite Claims of $100s of Millions in Dental Medicaid Fraud, Only 5 Texas Dentists Indicted Between 2011 and 2016

TDMR recently received information from an open records request to the Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Office of the Attorney General.  The request asked for a list of investigations conducted by MFCU on dentists between 2011 and 2016 when dentists and orthodontists were accused of hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicaid fraud over the … [Read More...]

ADSO Response to TDMR DMO 2020 Survey

TDMR took the opportunity to send a few questions to the new president of the Association of Dental Service Organizations (ADSO) Emmet Scott about the results of our latest DMO survey. We received back the following thoughtful responses and hope they provide an opening for discussion for positive changes for Medicaid dentists. … [Read More...]

2020 TDMR DMO Survey Results: Improvement, Skepticism About A Third Company

We are pleased to make public the results of our Texas Medicaid Dental Maintenance Organization Annual Survey 2020. This year 90 dentists took the opportunity to give us their views on the performance of MCNA and DentaQuest. Last year we had 98. It appears that there continues to be some shyness among providers to take part in our survey … [Read More...]

Final Judgment in Malouf Case – $16.5 million

Attorney General Ken Paxton's office yesterday sent out a press release announcing a final judgment in the civil Medicaid fraud case against Dr. Richard Malouf. Here is the text of the release: AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County ordered final judgment against Dr. … [Read More...]

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