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DALLAS, Texas:  Texas-based MB2 Dental Solutions (MB2) and 21 pediatric dental practices affiliated with MB2, along with their owners and marketing chief, have agreed to pay the United States and the State of Texas Medicaid program $8.45 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting, or causing the submission of, claims for pediatric dental services that were not rendered, were tainted by kickbacks, or falsely identified the person who performed the service, U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas announced on Monday.

As part of the settlement agreement, doctors Akhil Reddy, Christopher Steven Villanueva, Trung Minh Tang, Mauricio Dardano and Gabriel Shahwan agreed to pay $250,000 each to resolve the governments’ claims against them individually. They are owners or part owners of MB2 and the dental practices included in this settlement, and practice dentistry in Texas. Frank Villanueva, MB2’s head of marketing, also will pay $100,000 to resolve his alleged personal liability.

As part of this settlement, MB2 and doctors Villanueva, Tang, Dardano, Shahwan, and Reddy have entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG).

This settlement resolves allegations that between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2014, MB2 and affiliated dental practices submitted claims to the Texas Medicaid Fee for Service Program for single-surface fillings in children that were not provided. The settlement also resolves allegations that MB2 paid kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries and their families, marketers, and marketing entities, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, and that MB2 and affiliated dental practices used erroneous Medicaid provider numbers misrepresenting the dentists performing the pediatric procedures.

Medicaid is funded jointly by the states and the federal government. The State of Texas paid for part of the Medicaid claims at issue and will receive approximately half of the settlement amount.

MB2 is a dental management firm based in Carrollton, Texas, that provides management services to affiliated dental offices.

The CIA requires an independent review organization to annually assess whether claims reimbursed by a federal health care program were correctly coded, medically necessary and appropriately documented.

Part of the allegations resolved by this settlement were originally filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Veronica Garcia, a former MB2 employee. The act permits private parties to sue on behalf of the government for false claims for government funds and to receive a share of any recovery. It also permits the government to intervene in such lawsuits, as it did in this case. Garcia will receive $1.521 million from the United States and the State of Texas.

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30 minutes ago, nandananditha said:

Broder why are you highlighting our Texas gultes :(

nenu kaakapothe inkodu. Dallas Telugu Tejala goppathanam aapatam evari tharam kaadu.

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fuck this desi bastards  gujuguys fuck motel bussiness , Telugu employers suck blood in IT 

truck and transportation Punjabi fuckers 

all federal jobs are ** by Jamaica, Bangladesh, Somalia ,all Africa countries 

all hardware house related and drugs are ** by Mexico guys 

 

 

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1 minute ago, DaleSteyn1 said:

telollu em unna lekapoina nelakopaari ochi unna pallani oodagottinchukuni manchiga insurance dwara pay chesthunte a dabbulatho happy feel gaka e kakkurthi endho

Avunu bro. honest gaa practise chesukunna minimum 500k-million vasthadi. ina kooda satisfy kaaru ee naa kodukulu.

Gas station lo 5$ chori chesaru ani papam bokkalo vestharu nallollani , vellani emo fine vesi vadilesthunnaru. so sad.

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Just now, TampaChinnodu said:

Avunu bro. honest gaa practise chesukunna minimum 500k-million vasthadi. ina kooda satisfy kaaru ee naa kodukulu.

Gas station lo 5$ chori chesaru ani papam bokkalo vestharu nallollani , vellani emo fine vesi vadilesthunnaru. so sad.

that is how system is 

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Taking on Texas
Dallas, TX

Though it was difficult to leave the Bay Area, Dr. Akhil Reddy ’08 moved back to his home state of Texas after graduation. After associating for one year in a private practice, Reddy began opening up other practices with other dentists in the area. Today, he is one of the founders of a large, centralized management company that has about 50 dental practices and about 110 participating dentists in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and even Alaska.

How did he go so quickly from being an associate dentist to helping run a large dental management company? “I was always really interested in the business side of dentistry,” explains Reddy. “Though, I never thought I would go this far into it.” But as a University of Pacific undergraduate student, his favorite classes were in economics. And business ventures and learning new things was always his passion. “I was trading stocks in high school,” he adds.

I tell everyone that Pacific Dugoni is the best dental school in the world.

When he first started out, Reddy estimates he spent nearly 100% of his time practicing, with very little time spent on the business side. Now it’s nearly reversed. “About 90% of my time is the business and management side, and about 10% to 20% is practicing,” he says.

But Reddy also helps train other dentists how to manage aspects of their practices and their associating dentists, “and I have a lot of oversight clinically in how things are done and making sure patients are happy,” he explains.

His oversight has enabled him to see many dentists who’ve graduated from other schools. “I tell everyone that Pacific Dugoni is the best dental school in the world,” says Reddy. “I’ve seen the differences between dental schools in the clinicians’ work. There are some great dental schools, but Dugoni School of Dentistry is by far the strongest clinically, in my opinion,” he adds.

Reddy plans to return to the Bay Area to start another business venture with a classmate, though he’ll return frequently to Dallas to help with the management company.

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