January 16, 2015

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Sea Mar Community Health Centers agreed to pay $3.35M to settle charges of improperly billing Medicaid for thousands of dental appointments. According to the government, Sea Mar billed fluoride treatments as stand-alone appointments with a dentist or hygienist when they could have been performed much more cheaply by dental assistants as part of a patient’s regular six-month checkups. WA

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