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.
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
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.