Antoine Dental

Today the Sixth Court of Appeals issued their decision in the Medicaid payment hold case of Antoine Dental Center of Houston.  The court again exonerated the practice from allegations of Medicaid fraud, again terminated the payment hold and, for the … Read More

As reported in the press this week, there has been a tremendous effort on the part of the new Health and Human Services Commission Inspector General Stuart Bowen to settle old, outstanding investigations against Medicaid providers—including dentists.  Per the Chronicle, … Read More

The recent decision by a Travis County District Court judge that again vindicated Antoine Dental Center of Houston on allegations of Medicaid fraud and vacated a three-year “credible allegation of fraud” payment hold has been appealed by the Civil Medicaid … Read More

Yesterday, Travis County District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued her decision in the case of Antoine Dental Centers of Houston, vindicating the practice in its payment hold case.  The practice had been accused of “credible allegations of fraud” in … Read More

A district court judge on Wednesday handed state Medicaid regulators another decisive courtroom loss, adding one more notch to the Health and Human Service Commission’s Office of Inspector General’s unenviable losing streak pursuing dentists and orthodontists it claims have bilked … Read More

Last Wednesday, July 16, lawyers for Antoine Dental Centers of Houston again went to court. Going Travis County District Court This time they appeared before Travis County District Court to appeal the Medicaid payment hold final decision by former Health … Read More

Today, the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision and negated Health and Human Services Commission rules that allow for the Office of Inspector General to place Medicaid payment holds in certain circumstances, basically for only program violations … Read More

On May 7th,  Dr. Kyle Janek, the Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, issued his final order in the case of Antoine Dental Center of Houston. Upheld reversal of favorable SOAH ruling on Antoine Dental As expected, … Read More

by Becca Aaronson, The Texas Tribune May 1, 2014 Part one of two. In 2010 and 2011, Antoine Dental was among Texas’ top-billing Medicaid providers for orthodontic services, collecting more than $1 million annually for putting braces on poor children. … Read More

A recent review of our website content revealed to us that while PDF files containing these photos have always been on the site, perhaps they have not been as prominently displayed as they should be. Medicaid after all is about … Read More

This week the Texas Attorney General filed a remarkable brief to oppose the motion to disqualify HHSC judge Rick Gilpin from a Medicaid payment hold case because he was a senior lawyer in the Attorney General’s office for some 38 … Read More

A motion has been filed with the Texas Health and Human Services Appeal Division to have Judge Rick Gilpin disqualified as a hearing officer for cases involving dentists that started while Gilpin was still an attorney within the Attorney General’s … Read More

On February 27th, administrative law judge Rick Gilpin of Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued a final order in the “credible allegation of fraud” payment hold case of Antoine Dental of Houston, fully reversing the Proposal for Decision written … Read More

In a highly unusual move, a judge working for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission last week overturned findings of an outside judge — essentially changing a finding of innocence to one of guilt. The case is particularly unusual … Read More

March 5, 2014 — A Texas judge has upheld payment holds on Medicaid payments for Houston dental clinic Antoine Dental Center (ADC), citing credible evidence of Medicaid fraud. The clinics billed about $8.1 million for orthodontic services in less than … Read More

Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings judges, the Honorable Howard Seitzman and the Honorable Catherine Egan, provided their final Proposal for Decision in the case of Houston’s Antoine Dental Center to HHSC Excecutive Director Dr. Kyle Janek on Thursday. Antoine … Read More

Austin: (PR Web): Two administrative law judges with the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) have issued their proposal for decision in the case of Antoine Dental Center of Houston (ADC) SOAH Docket No. 529-13-0997. ADC had been placed … Read More

by Becca Aaronson, The Texas Tribune November 5, 2013 The Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of Inspector General, which says that hundreds of millions of dollars have been misspent on fraudulent Medicaid orthodontic and dental claims, has lost … Read More

by Becca Aaronson October 15, 2013 Texans discovered nearly two years ago that the state was spending more on orthodontic claims in its Medicaid program than the other 49 states combined, but recovery of millions in purportedly misspent Medicaid money … Read More

This past week attorneys for Antoine Dental Center (ADC) and those representing the Office of the Inspector General filed their closing arguments in the pending State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) case. The case challenges the 100% payment hold that … Read More

Hearing Transcripts Now Available for Download Antoine Dental Clinic vs. HHSC-OIG – Vol. 1 Antoine Dental Clinic vs. HHSC-OIG – Vol. 2 Antoine Dental Center v. THHSC, OIG – Vol. 3 Antoine Dental Center v. THHSC, OIG – Vol. 4 … 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

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