The goal is simple; inspire, if not demand, change by shining a spot light on the dark side of dental healthcare and those responsible which far too long went unchecked, unchallenged and unreported.
First to voice my outrage, then as a place to store information I found while researching this revolting treatment of children. Soon people from across the country began to write in telling me about their horrendous experiences at dental clinics. Their stories were spine chilling. As dental chains like Aspen, Affordable Dentures, Dental One, Heartland, Pacific, and many others began to open across the country, stories poured in from adult patients describing their physical agony in addition to their emotional and financial suffering.
These stories needed to be told as well and I had my opinions that needed to be expressed about what was and more importantly what was not being done to stop this illegal activity. Heartland Dental Winter Conference, January Why Picket Aspen Dental? We are a cause that primarily seeks to give a voice to the Aspen Dental victims who are not strong enough to speak out on their own. We desire to help victims of Aspen Dental because we too are a handful of victims that have been hurt; some of us worse than others.
Why has B. I saw a need to create a centralized website so people can see the magnitude of thousands of voices screaming out the injustices of Aspen Dental; people who have never had their dental horror story told much less appropriately addressed by the company who caused the damage ADM. We are one voice and one face: Boycott Aspen Dental.
How did you hear about Aspen Dental? My insurance had limited options, and Aspen Dental was one of them. Dr Mark Habermeyer was new at Aspen Dental, but he had several years of prior experience. Did Aspen Dental attempt to compensate for your pain and trouble? They refused to refund my money at the time of the incident, which was when www. Over a year later they are doing this? Unfortunately they chose a figure I put out there a year ago, and which no longer covered all that I had gone through.
Aspen Dental knew B. The plans for B. What about the threat of a lawsuit? The day Aspen Dental sues its victim is the day the world will know that Aspen Dental is guilty of all they are accused of doing and more. This victim will never shut up. We will revert back to sending telegrams if we have to, but B. Aspen Dental we are not going away until you stop hurting innocent people. Does Boycott Aspen Dental have an attorney? What is on the agenda of B.
Please visit our website www. We will also have our first Aspen Dental picket on that day locations to be announced. To have an annual picket at every Aspen Dental location until Aspen Dental STOPS preying on innocent people, often times low income seniors, people with disabilities and children of low income families.
If you are an Aspen Dental Victim or know someone who is, please consider joining B. Plaintiffs claim Herzog collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors to open multiple locations for his dentistry in Austin, then never bought them and left the city.
They also say the State Board of Dental Examiners suspended his license in , but allowed him to practice under certain conditions. In , Herzog voluntarily surrendered his license to practice, which the plaintiffs said they were not aware of. According to Texas State Board of Dental Examiners records, Herzog was accused of advertising that his offices had multiple "elite" providers for Invisalign services, but he was the only "elite" provider. Herzog is also accused of advertising dental services that "were free or discounted without disclosing the prices of associated services," according to his non-disciplinary remedial plan.
Clinton F. The Happy Hour dentist who offers patients free booze before a cleaning , May See Amended Petition here See LT Smiles Petition here In January Benevis and it's Kool Smiles branded dental clinics agreed to the settlement after the Department of Justice found the company "knowingly submitted" false claims for payment to state Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary pediatric dental services.
Benevis Corp. We look forward to continued investments in the future and the continuation of our long history of supporting outstanding dental care. Updated: March As of today, their website shows only 12 offices still open, that's down from However, I'm told that they closed several and were going to rebrand using the name Bright Tiger Dental until about the time the COVID hit, then suddenly, they fired all employees and closed the doors to all their clinics.
This has not been verified. On March 18, the American Dental Association issued guidelines in response to the Covid Virus, recommending emergency treatment only.
New out of Nebraska reports some dental offices closing under the guidelines. I suspect we will be seeing more headlines as the one below in the coming months. However, during the first stage I suspect there will be more pressure on working dentists to overtreat as the chains try to stay afloat.
I'll be watching. Why the company was not placed under a Corporate Integrity Agreement is beyond me, not that they mean a whole lot, but still. Attorney John F. Bash for the Western District of Texas. Soon after they began rebranding each clinic to appear more individually owned and operated.
But did they change their ways? The Complaint states that at least 50 children were treated with unsterilized instruments in March and April Ashley Nichols , Dr. Supneet Wadhwa , Dr.
Dental Management, LLC. Abry Partners has made an investment in Framingham, Massachusetts-based Dr. Dental Management , a dental management service organization. No financial terms were disclosed. Dental , a dental management service organization that provides comprehensive management and administrative services to Dr. Dental-branded offices. Dental has a unique playbook for growth, successfully scaling the company exclusively through new site openings to become one of the largest dental management service organizations in New England, with active dentists treating over , patients a year.
With this infusion of capital from Abry, Dr. Dental will continue to expand organically by opening new locations but will now also target strategic acquisitions of dental practices and groups throughout the Northeast. Julia Faigel, DMD, clinical director, with the mission of providing quality dental care and great service at a lower cost in convenient neighborhood locations. The organization has grown from a single location to now 44 locations with operatories throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey.
The Dr. Dental management service organization supports its patient-care locations in all non-clinical aspects of dental practice, including staffing, patient scheduling, billing and collections, financial reporting and analysis, group purchasing, payroll, marketing, education and training.
This suite of services enables affiliated dentists to focus exclusively on delivering high-quality patient care, making Dr.
Dental one of the leading brands as measured by patient satisfaction in the Northeast. Dental Management , DSO. Christine Ellis, Madelayne Castillo, Yarubi Morales and other whistleblowers, their legal teams said today. The settlement is the largest recovery ever in a healthcare fraud recovery suit in Texas for Medicaid related claims.
The company, formerly known as Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. It was the largest single Medicaid fraud-related settlement in a case filed by the Texas Attorney General. The settlement comes after a three-year WFAA investigation that uncovered millions of dollars in alleged overbilling by Texas dentists targeting low-income children for unnecessary and often harmful dental and orthodontic work.
Benevis is Kool Smiles and Resolution Dental. Thursday, February 07, Toddler who died after dental procedure at Kool Smiles was hooked up to empty oxygen tank as staff muted heart alarm: lawsuit. Toddler who died after dental procedure was hooked up to empty oxygen tank as staff muted heart alarm: lawsuit Jan 9, The heartbroken family of a 2-year-old boy who died after a visit to the dentist last year is suing the Arizona clinic, claiming that a staff member repeatedly muted the alarm on a heart monitor that he was hooked up to, and that the oxygen tank he was supposed to be receiving supplemental air from was either faulty or empty.
By Deepa Bharath dbharath scng. The children, ages 3 to 9, all underwent pulpotomies at the clinic between April and July
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