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Health Care & Hospital Law

Aug. 11, 2011

Fight against health care fraud gets results

Coordinated approach to fighting health care fraud gets unprecedented results. By Tony West of the U.S. Department of Justice


Imagine you go to the dentist for a routine checkup or cleaning. Once you're there, you're told you need dental surgery, when in reality you don't. And imagine that the surgery you're told you need consists of root canals. Eleven of them. In one sitting. Now imagine you're told all of this, and you're just a child.


For families trying to make ends meet, the Small Smiles chain of dental clinics promised quality dental treatments for childre...

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