Even though patients were toothless, dentists billed Medicaid for fillings and root canals

The state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General wants dentists to know toothless patients do not need fillings.That office announced some dentists inappropriately charged the state’s Medicaid program millions of dollars for doing fillings, root canals and other restorative work on people who have no teeth. Medicaid covers the cost of health care for the poor and disabled…

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