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Two Vietnamese dentists, Dr. Liem Do and his wife, Dr. Phuong-Oanh Tran, are in hot water after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a civil lawsuit against them. CareOne Dental Corporation allegedly collected $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid payments.
Dr. Liem Do is accused of milking Medicaid of $1 million dollars. (Photo courtesy: careonedental.com)
CareOne Dental Corporation has four offices in Washington, including two in Vancouver.
The dentists are accused of billing Medicaid for non-covered services, charged more for services than what they performed and charged for services they didn’t do. The alleged fraud took place between January 2011 and June 2015. the lawsuit claims that one of the ways Do and his wife common practice was to bill most tooth extractions as requiring surgery, even where there was no evidence a surgical extraction was provided.
Dr. Phuong-Oanh Tran, Do’s wife, is also named in the lawsuit filed by the Washington Attorney General. (Photo courtesy: careonedental.com)
To read more, click here:
http://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-alleges-clark-county-dentists-collected-1-million-fraudulent-medicaid-payments
