Is It Safe?

A New York Times exposé on Medicaid fraud describes a Brooklyn dentist who "claimed to have performed as many as 991 procedures a day in 2003." Her slogan: "Gentle Family Dentistry."

Comments

[Hakluyt]

Jacob Sullum,

A great spy novel/movie. Laurence Olivier as a Nazi was priceless. I just love it when Babe makes him eat the diamonds.

[thoreau]

Trying to find an honest Medicaid dentist is like pulling teeth.

Thank-you, I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress!

[Phil]

Her slogan: "Gentle Family Dentistry."

Formerly "Painful Family Dentistry"

[cjp]

Why must Medicaid turn this dentist's office into a DEN OF LIES??!

[Hakluyt]

These sorts of medicaid scams are common throughout the U.S. I remember a similar scam out of Florida a few years back.

[drf]

how about the dentist scene in "Splash" where Eugene Levy's character declines an injection before the cracked tooth ("near the nerve") - the dentist is a great parody from "Marathon" and declares:
"Oh you like pain. Vell ve aim to pleaze"

[peachy]

"They have the plant, but we have the power"

That is such a great episode, cjp... thanks for reminding me. Good times...

[anonymous]

I've met a guy who does medical supply for medicaid. When private insurance companys call he hangs up on them because the prices they negotiate don't yield a profit worth distracting his time away from the state social workers and their desire to help people at any cost (to the tax payers).

[Mo]

cjp,

I couldn't stop laughing when you read you post. Oops, I left the gas on.