Ohio Medicaid Fraud Suit Dismissed Following Parties’ Settlement

A whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit alleging that Complete Dental Care and its owner billed Ohio Medicaid for unnecessary root canals is dismissed following a settlement, a federal district court said.

Dentist John Kramer alleged that Complete Dental Care billed Ohio Medicaid for dental procedures that weren’t medically necessary or for which the individual who performed the procedure wasn’t properly licensed.

The federal government has clearly provided written consent to the settlement, and “everyone whom the settlement impacts has agreed that it represents a fair resolution of the case,” Judge Douglas R. Cole for the US District Court for the ...