Paul Schahwan is and was a dentist working in the Crescent practices.
Sang Trang is and was a dentist working in the Fresh practices.Īndrea Salazar is and was a dentist working in the Bliss practices. He is familiar with the kickbacks paid to solicitors and to patients and their families for referrals and the overbilling and over-treating of patients. He is familiar with the kickbacks paid to patient solicitors and to patients and their families for referrals, as well as the overbilling and over-treating of patients.Īkhil Reddy is a dentist and senior member of DPT and has an ownership interest in the Fresh Dental, Bliss and Picasso practices. Worth practices, Sage offices in Houston and Crescent practices. Gabriel Shahwan is a dentist and a senior member of DPT, a member of MB2 and has an ownership interest in the Archstone's Ft. These "audits" were intentionally superficial and incomplete, and were actually intended to conceal the ongoing illegal practices. October 2011 he and a "team" consisting of his daughter, Audrey Steen, and one other person allegedly "audited" the various DP Defendants to assure Medicaid compliance. Steen ostensibly served as "compliance officer" for Medicaid and in Steen is shown as the "Authorized Agent" for DPT in signing the FebruCertificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Formation of Dental Professionals of Texas, PLLC changing the name to MB2 Dental Solutions, PLLC. John Steen is the Chief Financial Officer of DPT. She was and is responsible for the entire accounting team. In her position, Pu was knowledgeable about the illegal billing practices, the solicitation of patients, and the budgeted "promotion accounts" for every practice which were actually used for kickback payments. Mary Pu is Trung Tang's wife and the Vice President of Finance for Dental Professionals of Texas, PLLC (now MB2).
She assisted in the recruitment of dentists and other staff and paraprofessionals for the dental offices of DP defendants and for DPT. He is and was an employee of DPT (now MB2) and was the person who hired Relator, coercively persuaded her to accept the "promotion" to work for KHB Community Outreach Associates, LLC and coordinated the kickback payments to the referring marketers and the Medicaid parents or family members.Īnn Villanueva, the sister of Defendant Chris Steven Villanueva, is and was the Human Resources Director for DPT (now MB2) and the DP defendants. This was done at the request of Defendants, including DPT (a/k/a MB2), Villanueva and Tang, to cover up and conceal the illegal kickback solicitation scheme.įrank Villanueva is the brother of Defendant Chris Steven Villanueva and the person primarily responsible for obtaining illegal referrals and direct solicitation of patients for the Defendants. When DPT's kickback scheme was aired by Dallas news stations, Byington formed KHB Community Outreach Associates, LLC. Byington and Frank Villanueva were responsible for recruiting willing marketers and paying them kickbacks for locating likely Medicaid families with children eligible for dental services and referring those patients and their families to the DP defendants. Byington works directly for Frank Villanueva, Defendant Chris Villanueva's brother and head of the marketing Division of DPT.
Kevin Howard Byington ("Byington") is and was in the marketing department for DPT. Ann§§ 27-14-1 et seq.on behalf of the State of New Mexico. 438.3 on behalf of the State of Louisiana and the New Mexico Medicaid False Claims Act N.M. §36.001 on behalf of the State of Texas, the Louisiana Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Law, La. …This action is also brought under the qui tam provisions of the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Law, V.T.C.A., Hum. PEPPERMINT DENTAL MCKINNEY, PLLC DENTAL CENTRAL, PLLC ĭental Professionals of Texas=DPT now known as MB2 SOUTHERN GEM DENTAL, PLLC LUCKY DENTAL, PLLC
MAURICIO DARDANO, Individually and as member/managing member of Defendant companies ĬHRISS VILLANUEVA DENTAL, PA DFW-FDC, PA TRUNG MINH TANG, Individually and as member/managing member of Defendant companies Settlement reached: Decem(when the Corporate Integrity Agreement was signed)ĬHRIS STEVEN VILLANUEVA, Individually and as member/managing member of Defendant companies Buyer Beware!! Never take your children to any of these clinics! EVER! You can read the entire Complaint by clicking here. They are currently still in operation and open for business which is scary once you read the allegations. Keep in mind they admitted no guilt to the claims but agreed to pay $8.45M to settle the issue.
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