Yesterday the Dallas Morning News reported that a North Dallas psychotherapist plead guilty to a five-year health care fraud scheme and agreed to surrender his license to practice psychology. The US Attorneys Office press release states that Michael Ellis Wolf, … Read More
At the beginning of December, 2013, the Health and Human Services Commission published online its budgetary figures for 2014. Included in the document are the 2012 and 2013 expenditures and metrics for the Office of the Inspector General and its … 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
TDMR is pleased to present the first in a series of articles on health care compliance penned by TDMR President Greg Ewing. Greg is a health care lawyer with over fifteen years of experience in transactional health law; health information technology; … Read More
Back on October 15th, 2012, now more than a year ago, Texas Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation John Scott testified before the House Committee on Public Health in the Capitol. TDMR has just reviewed the archived video from the … Read More
Before the Thanksgiving long weekend, TDMR received a copy of the August 2012 audit conducted by the HHSC Office of the Inspector General on the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership. As far as we know this is the first time … Read More
The Texas Sunset Commission is evaluating the state Health and Human Services Commission this coming year under its mandate to periodically review Texas state agencies for their operation and need to exist. About the Commission The Texas Legislature created the … Read More
After a 40-year career, Dr. Paul Dunn is now on the verge of bankruptcy because he helped Medicaid children. In 2012, HHSC-OIG placed Dunn’s practice in Levelland under a 100% “credible allegation of fraud” payment hold for his orthodontic Medicaid … 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
The Office of the Inspector General website now has a report detailing the 2012 fraud detection and recovery activity of all managed care organizations (MCOs) that participate in Texas Medicaid. Under Texas Government Code, Section 531.113, the MCOs are required … Read More
At the recent Texas Tribune Tribunefest on health care held between September 27th to 29th, there were a number of interesting sessions. The second session moderated by Tribune health care reporter Becca Aaronson discussed Medicaid. Entitled, “The Fight of Over … 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
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
The following is from a story from the October 5th Austin American Statesman. Texas AG sued by own lawyer Plaintiff says his initial complaints about office garnered reprisals. By Jazmine Ulloa A lawyer for the Texas attorney general’s office has … Read More
Here is the final judge’s order directing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Executive Commissioner Dr. Kyle Janek and Inspector General Doug Wilson to return $1,255,195.20 to Harlingen Family Dentistry. The order can be downloaded here. AMENDED FINAL JUDGMENT … Read More
TDMR has put together this article to give dental and other Medicaid providers some common language understanding of the provisions of Senate Bill 1803 now in force to protect their due process rights. We have used the text of … Read More
This morning the San Antonio Express published a feature article headlining the case of Harlingen Family Dentistry and Dr. Juan Villarreal and his fight against the Office of Inspector General and their “credible allegation of fraud” payment holds. Reporter Jeremy … Read More
Harlingen Family Dentistry has won a tremendous legal victory this week. Travis County District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum has granted HFD’s motion for a writ of mandamus to force the Office of Inspector General to return more than $1 … Read More
Back on September 5th, the Texas Tribune hosted a conversation on the future of Latino health care with Dr. Esteban López, a regional president for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of the Institute for Health … Read More
