Ohio dentist sentenced for Medicaid fraud

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has announced that Jeffrey Glenn, DDS, of Cincinnati has been sentenced to five years of community control and ordered to pay restitution of $225,000, after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated theft, a third-degree felony.

An Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) review of Glenn's billing indicated an unusual pattern. That triggered an investigation within the Ohio Attorney General's Health Care Fraud Unit.

Investigators interviewed Dr. Glenn and employees of his Bond Hill Dental Center office, sifted through almost 3,000 patient records obtained through a search warrant, interviewed dentists who subsequently treated Dr. Glenn's former patients, and interviewed Dr. Glenn's patients. The results indicate that during the course of four years beginning in 2006, Dr. Glenn repeatedly billed Medicaid for dental work that was not done.

Dr. Glenn paid $50,000 in restitution today. The balance, $175,000, is due within five years. The money will be repaid to ODJFS and four of Ohio's Medicaid managed care organizations that were also falsely billed: Molina Healthcare, CareSource, Buckeye Community Health Plan, and Amerigroup.