First, the dentist had to repay NOK 2.5 million to Helfo. Now the Norwegian Health Authority wants to take away his right to practice as a dentist. Among other things, he is said to have inserted dentures for teeth, without explaining which teeth were pulled. For this he demanded reimbursements from the State. The documentation is absent, according to the Norwegian Health Authority. The journals were characterized by “free imagination”, according to an expert dentist. Now he has been notified that he is in danger of losing the right to practice as a dentist. news has gained access to the letter the Norwegian Health Authority sent to the dentist in November. Got out 2.5 million too much The case started last summer. Helfo then demanded that the dentist pay back a whopping 2.5 million, which he has wrongly been paid back by the State. He had partially misused or overused rates, and he had demanded reimbursement for treatments he had not carried out. Helfo administers reimbursement schemes and checks that it is done correctly. As a reaction to the practice of the dentist, they took away from him the right to practice at the expense of the social security for 5 years. At the same time, Helfo notified the State Administrator in Inland about the refund fraud. FREE IMAGINATION: According to an expert dentist, most of the patient records she has gone through seem like “free imagination”. Picture is an illustration picture Journals full of imagination The state administrator thought the case was so serious that they asked an expert dentist to go through 23 journals that the dentist had sent to Helfo with a demand for reimbursement. In 96 per cent of them, the conditions for reimbursement were not present. The expert dentist writes that “for the uninitiated, it is very difficult to see how you have planned and what treatment has been carried out. The most probable thing is that most of the journals are free imagination”. Experts also write that the dentist has probably recorded fictitious circumstances. Furthermore, if what is written in the patient records is to be believed, the dentist is not acting professionally responsibly. Notify the Norwegian Health Authority The report from the expert dentist caused the Norwegian Health Authority to be notified. Since this is an ongoing supervisory case, the Norwegian Health Authority does not wish to comment on the case itself. But senior adviser Karen Pareliussen confirms that they have notified the dentist in advance that they are considering revoking his authorization as a dentist. The background is the information from Helfo and the content of the report from the expert dentist. The further proceedings are that the dentist has been given a deadline to comment on the advance notice. – He has also accepted an offer to meet with us, says Karen Pareliussen. – The meeting will be in January, and then we aim to decide on the supervisory matter after that. MEETING IN JANUARY: Only after a meeting in January will it become clear whether the dentists will actually lose their authorization as dentists, says senior adviser Karen Pareliussen in the National Health Inspectorate. Photo: The Norwegian Health Authority The dentist: A misunderstanding The dentist himself tells news that he has had problems transferring written medical records to a digital format. And that there is a misunderstanding about the 19 root canals. – The treatment took several days, but there was an error when I had to transfer it to a digital form. Then it looks as if everything was done on the same day. According to the expert, the dentist also did not take more than one X-ray to make 19 root canals, something which, according to the Norwegian Health Authority, would be completely unjustified, if true. – They have not accepted the documentation I have attached, because the photo was printed without a date. But I had sent several pictures, which the expert dentist did not see, says the dentist to news. DENTAL CLINIC: The dentist is attached to a dental clinic in the interior. Image is an illustration image. Photo: Dag Kessel / news Several people have to pay back While it is the State Administrator and the Norwegian Health Authority that assess whether healthcare personnel operate legally, it is Helfo that checks that healthcare personnel do not cheat on reimbursements. Last year they increased their efforts in the serious cases. And never have so many lost the right to operate with reimbursement subsidies. 21 people, against 8 the previous year. In total, they demanded NOK 46.1 million back and 11 were reported to the police for abusing the refund scheme by Helfo last year.
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