Showing posts with label Maryland What Happened Next. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland What Happened Next. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2008

After the first Small Smiles Report

Over the course of a few months, after Roberta's first report, there were a lot of follow-ups and communications between a lot of organization and state agencies and FORBA, now known as Church Street Health Care Management.
November 2007:
At that time, Maryland had 3 companies that managed their dental program.
  1. Amerigroup who contracted out to Doral who contracted with FORBA (this drives me insane!)
  2. United Healthcare - Mid-Atlantic Medicaid Plan (United Medicaid/UHCMA) who contracted with Dental Benefit Providers, Inc.
  3. JAI Medical Systems
All these companies started investigating Small Smiles clinics Nov. 9 and Nov. 12, 2007.

November 9, 2007 Mike Lindley tells employees there would be audits that they estimate may take 30-45 days and during which time they could not seek reimbursement, but they had made the decision to continue to treat patients.  (because they felt so strongly about taking care of the underprivileged, all services would be "at no charge". 

[Am I the only one who doesn't think they knew how things would end and they could float these clinics for a couple of months, no problem]