There are hoards of evidence that dentists and employees of dental chains owned and operated by Wall Street fat cats have production quotas to meet. Some chains call a daily “budget” amount, while others call it “goals”, “targets” or “forecasts”. Be it the number of patients or dollar amount the company expects the employee to bill or sell, it’s still a quota.
The pressure to meet these quota’s appears to be the foundation on which the overtreatment, mistreatment, malpractice, and brute force used on children is based.
It’s not just the private equity firms, like Morgan Stanley, or the regionalized dental management organizations like Dental Professionals of Texas (now MB-2) bilking the Medicaid system. It’s also our medical colleges it appears.
A student used to be denied his or her degree because they were short credits. At New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD), graduating is based on meeting a production goal.
It was because she had failed to meet the $38,000 in production quota at NYU’s David B. Kriser Dental Center.
What does New York University College of Dentistry call its production quota system? It’s called “Practice Model Value” (PMV). It is purportedly to train dentists to treatment real patients for a fee. Well, golly gee, wonder if they had no clue that would happen if they used their skills after graduation?
I wonder if it’s some kind of scoring system to see how much value any particular student can be to a corporate dental chain. That seems to be what the name of the program implies.
We know for sure it is a revenue generating system for the college at the expense of patients health and the taxpayer. NYUCD accepts several Medicaid managed care programs.
I know what you’re thinking, maybe this was some kind of program to aid in payment of her education. That answer is, no. Meeting the $38,000 quota is required by each student in addition to the $70,000 a year tuition.
According to court documents, students were required to meet a quota $38,000 in their last two years of dental school. In the spring of 2009, Dr. Harry Meeker, Katie’s instructor, says he notified Katie about her deficiency. But the earliest records showing any communication to the fact was May 25, 2009.
So, what did Katie do? Again, according to court documents, after hearing of her situation and before she planned to move to Boston in two days, Katie did what others pressured to meet quota’s do. She fabricated patient records. She charted she she provided patients with 16 extractions, and bleaching on one afternoon and ponied up the $2000 herself. The treatments never happened.
