Posted on 01/20/2020 6:30:54 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
An Alaska dentist has been found guilty on dozens of charges for pulling a patient’s tooth as he rode on the two-wheeled gadget.
The video shows the dentist triumphantly throwing his hands in the air while scooting off from the wheel-y stupid stunt, then spinning around to grin at the camera.
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Or maybe not.
The hoverboard incident, while true, is mostly Fake News.
Here’s the real reason he was in court:
An employee had tipped Medicaid investigators that Lookhart was using intravaneous sedation more often than neccessary in order to bump up profits at his business, Clear Creek Dental. According to charges, he and his former office manager Shauna Cranford billed nearly $2 million in IV sedation without proper justification during 2016. That accounted for 31% of the state’s payments for IV sedation that year, charges said.
Figgers. I have a make nurse who sees my mom on out patient therapy who is scamming Medicare with all his “extra visits”. Going to report. A hole.
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Shauna Cranford billed nearly $2 million in IV sedation without proper justification during 2016
35,000 applications in one year???
Depending on the type of sedation provided, the average fee for the sedation portion of the appointment can range anywhere from $50 for nitrous oxide, to $245 for oral sedation, and $562 for intravenous sedation, which makes the anesthesia portion of the procedure a profit center in and of itself
https://www.dentaleconomics.com/money/article/16389162/success-with-sedation-a-profitability-comparison-of-nitrous-oral-and-iv-sedation
So docs cant even choose what kind of anesthetic they get to use on their patients?
What if he found he had the least amount of problems and complications using a particular form over the others?
If wrongful billing procedures are why this dentist is in trouble, why are they saying so?
Or is it just plain easier to stop a dentist from working if you accuse him of floating about on his hoverboard as he serves his patients? Maybe that’s the reason.
**I'm on the second one and will out live him. One HAS to trust the dentist.
Stupid and unprofessional yes, illegal ?
Sounds like the charges in court had little to do with the hoverboard and more to do with billing fraud.
My wife and I have been kind of hard on the medical profession. So far we’ve had one dentist and one doctor commit suicide.
Suicide is THE saddest thing in the world.
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