A Wisconsin-based dentist has been convicted of purposefully breaking his patients’ teeth in order to charge them for fixes and collect insurance money!
According to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Scott Charmoli was convicted of five counts of health care fraud and two counts of making false statements related to health care matters.
In a news release published last week, they shared: Seriously?! Related: Woman Reveals She Caught Her Baby Daddy Cheating HOURS After Giving Birth! The office went on to explain that this scheme began in 2015 when Charmoli began to allegedly lie to his patients to convince them to schedule a crown procedure — when in reality, they had no need for the operation: Scott, who lives in Grafton, Wisconsin, would then send these photos to insurance companies to collect additional money, but those organizations were under the assumption that the damage depicted in the photos and X-rays was done BEFORE the crown procedure took place (rather than during).
The statement continued: Throughout an investigation, authorities discovered that Charmoli billed more than $4.2 million for crown procedures from 2016 to 2019!
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