By Maria Papadopoulos
The Enterprise
Posted Feb. 25, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
Updated Feb 25, 2014 at 6:17 PM
An Easton dentist has agreed to pay $400,000 to the state’s Medicaid program to resolve allegations of improperly billing for visits to MassHealth members living in nursing homes, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Tuesday.
An investigation found that Dr. Donald P. Prohovich, a dental provider in the MassHealth program, violated a regulation established in 2010 that limits payments for providers to one “house call” to a facility per day, Coakley said in a statement.
Investigators found that from July 2010 to September 2013, Prohovich allegedly improperly billed for house calls to elderly MassHealth patients in nursing homes in eastern Massachusetts on a per-patient, per-day basis.
