Here are eight recent dental industry settlements worth more than $53 million:
1. A federal judge approved Align Technology’s revised $31.7M antitrust settlement.
2. Two dentists in Connecticut entered into civil settlement agreements to resolve allegations that they violated state and federal False Claims Acts, paying $714,446 to reimburse the state’s Medicaid program.
3. Red Dirt Orthodontics agreed to pay $583,090 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by allegedly submitting false claims to the Oklahoma Medicaid program.
4. The Minnesota Office of the Attorney General reached a settlement with the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee of a shuttered dental practice. The settlement enables patients affected by the closure to obtain refunds for services they paid in advance for but never received.
5. Madison, Wis.-based First Choice Dental agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from its 2023 data breach.
6. An Iowa dentist who was accused of professional incompetence for the third time agreed to surrender his license as part of a settlement agreement with the Iowa Dental Board.
7. A Connecticut dentist agreed to pay $150,000 to settle allegations that she violated the federal False Claims Act by allegedly paying a third-party patient recruiting company for each Medicaid patient referred to her for services above routine preventive care.
8. Chicago-based Aspen Dental agreed to pay $18.7 million to settle allegations that it transmitted web user data to Meta and Google without users’ knowledge or consent.
