Our accounting firm, Goldin Peiser & Peiser, LLP holds information sessions, or Dental RoundTables, for dentists in the DFW area approximately 6 times a year. Topics have ranged from compliance, to marketing, to how to increase revenue. They are quite successful; we have a steady, loyal following with approximately the same number of guests, some new and some repeats, attend each session. However, our RoundTable on Dental Medicaid was something we had never seen before. The session “sold out” in a few days, prompting us to repeat the topic a few months later. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the dental community is nervous about the stepped up efforts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to audit dental practices for Medicaid fraud. And dentists should be concerned. Since 2010, the federal government has opened over 1000 new criminal cases and 1700 investigations, and is involved in over 900 civil investigations with an additional 1300 cases pending.
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She has been edentulous at the maxillary arch for about 3 years while the latest extractions at the mandibular arch had been made about 6 months before the clinical examination. The patient presented with good general health and oral hygiene. She wore two removable complete dentures unsatisfactory for both function and esthetics. ... [Read article]
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Apr 17, 2013 07:10 PMThe patient was in good general health, was a moderate smoker (about 10 cigarettes per day) and had acceptable oral hygiene. Dental crowding, malocclusion and abfractions were noticed but the patient did not accept any orthodontic treatment and asked just for the restoration of the maxillary central incisors. The patient refused a new restoration with [...] ... [Read article]
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