Lawmakers Want Answers on Dental, Orthodontic Fraud
Updated Oct. 15, 9:40 p.m.:
As new details on Medicaid dental and orthodontic fraud investigations emerged at a House Public Health hearing on Monday, lawmakers warned that state agencies should not shirk responsibility for allowing the payment of millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid claims.
“We’ve had breaks in the accountability chain within our own agencies… but if we were more on top of our game we might have been able to stop a lot of this,” said Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker. “I think we need to keep pointing the finger back at us.”
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Comments (5)
K C
Thank you channel 8 in Dallas for bird dogging this story until the "officials" finally did something about it!
Meme Me
In Texas Medicaid braces go hand in hand with $40 nails, $500 smartphones and $70 Abacrombie t-shirts. Why eat beans and rice in Mexico when you can eat steak in Texas?
Jim Moriarty
Meme Me, your attitudes about the poor are showing. This task force is essentially 100% focused on the Medicaid providers, not the Medicaid recipients. I have no doubt that if Medicaid recipient fraud is found, it will be prosecuted but the evidence is that the providers cheated. You might read the story, it's actually a pretty good story.
Rudy Gonzales
Texas' Attorney General, Greg Abbott, and the Inspector General of the Texas' Health and Human Service Commission have been lax in overseeing their fiduciary responsibility towards and for the people of Texas. Gross failures abound under the TEA-republican controlled legislature. The first question to ask is: How much under the table money has changed hands to look the other way?
Leon Drozd
Fraud in Texas??? So THAT'S how they afford all those vacations! It wasn't all that long ago when Texas doctors were pushing for limits on medical malpractice/negligence.