Dental managers admitted to using their father’s dental practice in Indiana to defraud Medicaid out of $365,000 for fake dental surgeries and have pleaded guilty, according to a story published on January 19 in the Chicago Tribune.
Justyn Arch, 34, and Trystan Arch, 31, who previously worked at Arch Complete Family Dentistry in Indiana, admitted to using the dental license of their father, Dr. Joseph Arch Sr., to bill Medicaid for $365,000 in dental surgeries that did not take place. Their father was president of the practice until he died in 2017.
Additionally, the brothers admitted to filing a false tax return.
Now, the former dental managers must pay $120,000 to the Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and $63,000 in restitution to the IRS. They will be sentenced at a later date.
In 2021, the brothers were charged in a single-count grand jury indictment in which the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana accused the brothers of defrauding the state Medicaid program by falsifying patient files, claiming dental surgery when none had been performed.
