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"Medicaid Mill" Dentists' Assets Targeted By Cuomo

2010_04_dentiststicker.jpg After the Post reported that some dentists were paying cash to poor Medicaid-card holders for procedures—allowing the dentists to charge Medicaid many times more—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants to seize the assets of the dentists involved. Today, the Post has a photograph of "Agents serv[ing] papers at accused Medicaid fraudster David Ibragimov's Kew Gardens mansion, which they want to seize." Four of the dentists involved in the $7 million scam are now cooperating with the state; one "further admitted to knowing that 'flyer boys' went around rounding up patients in the area, mostly from homeless shelters, and brought them to the clinics in groups."

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  • 5borough

    Without the cash incentive those underserved teeth would be neglected.

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