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Updated: 12:03 PM EDT May 25, 2021
OLEAN, N.Y. A health care system has agreed to pay nearly $3 million for allegedly submitting false claims to Medicaid for dental services using tools that were not properly cleaned.
Upper Allegheny Health Systems, which operates several dental clinics in the Southern Tier and Pennsylvania, will pay $2.7 million to resolve False Claim Act allegations. The federal government will receive about $1.3 million of that settlement.
Investigators say Upper Allegheny Health Systems submitted false claims between April 2010 and May 2015 for dental services that were performed using handpieces that were not properly sterilized.
They say Upper Allegheny Health Systems directed personnel to use CaviWipes to clean handpieces between patients.