More than $60,000 in insurance claims has been deposited by former dental assistant into her personal account
At a Mishawaka endodontics practice, an employer reported a former dental assistant after discovering more than $60,000 in insurance claims had been sent into her personal account between August 2010 and September of this year. Based on a police report, an employee who was a 46 years old Granger woman had been fired from the business on Nov. 2 after she had reportedly ordered $140 worth of medications which were not real at the practice.
After being fired, another dental assistant had seen the woman took several papers from the practice and threw those papers in a trash bin. The police report said that the woman had acquired checks that were paid by insurance companies for insurance claims and deposited it into her personal account. “The woman was alleged had used a stamp to endorse the checks under the office’s name and then signing her name and had sent it into her Notre Dame Federal Credit Union account”, according to police.
The doctor also told police that he had known there were problems related to some of the claims wasn’t paid, but the woman told that the claims hadn’t been paid by the insurance company. The doctor gave a list of patients’ names and claims that were not accounted for that should have been paid. Mishawaka police’s still do investigating.