Watch Dollars and Dentists, a joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity. DentalWorks, a national dental-care chain, is facing two lawsuits in North Carolina claiming that it unlawfully practiced dentistry and deceptive practices. A lawsuit filed by the state dental board alleges that the company lied about its operations. A second lawsuit, […]
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A new Texas law will give regulators more power to crack down on dentists performing unnecessary treatments, especially on children. A spokesman for the bill’s author — Republican State Rep. Lois W. Kolkhorst of Brenham, Texas — said the law came about largely because of a joint investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and […]
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Senate Report Faults Children’s Dental Chain for “Fundamentally Deceptive” Care
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016Watch Dollars and Dentists, a joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity. One of the nation’s largest dental chains for children should be thrown out of the Medicaid program for encouraging dentists to perform unnecessary treatments to boost profits, a new U.S. Senate report concludes. A two-year Senate investigation of dental chains […]
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Moved by the shooting death of Hiram Rosa, a 22-year-old Rutgers University student whose life he had tried to save, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner hoped to encourage the police to step up patrols in high-crime areas by mapping where incidents occurred. So Brenner started looking at hospital billing data, building a searchable database to try to […]
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One of the credit card companies used to finance expensive medical and dental-care treatments has been ordered to pay millions in compensation for misleading consumers. Watch Dollars and Dentists, a joint investigation by FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity. CareCredit, a subsidiary of GE Capital Retail Bank, must refund up to $34.1 million to […]
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Update, April 3, 2014: Small Smiles will no longer be allowed to serve patients on Medicaid started Sept. 30, affecting hundreds of thousands of children, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services announced today. CSHM LLL, which owns the management company serving Small Smiles, said it doesn’t plan to appeal the […]
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MSF on Ebola: “This is the Biggest Outbreak We’ve Ever Known”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016Researchers believe a 2-year-old boy who died last December in a village in Guinea, was the first casualty of West Africa’s ongoing Ebola outbreak. Since then, Ebola has spread to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. By September 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the virus had infected 4,290 people and killed 2,296 of them — […]
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Obama on Ebola: Without Help, Families Are “Waiting to Die” (Video)
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016Saying that whole families are “waiting to die,” President Obama unveiled a U.S. response Tuesday to the Ebola epidemic that has claimed more than 2,400 African lives — a death toll projected to rise exponentially in the coming weeks. Last week, in Ebola Outbreak, FRONTLINE reported on the intense difficulty of fighting the epidemic, which quickly infects entire families […]