Dentists

Budget cuts and discrepancies with who is eligible for dental care have landed Connecticut as one of the worst states when it comes to cost for dental coverage, according to The CT Mirror.

A San Diego dentist was charged June 10 with 75 insurance fraud counts for allegedly billing various insurance companies for procedures never performed, according to local Fox5SanDiego.com.

Vericred, a data services platform, has released a new dental network that allows patients to shop for dentists.

U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw sentenced a former Murfreesboro, Tenn., dentist to 33 months in prison for his role in a $1 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Daily News Journal.

A Los Angeles dentist was sentenced to 40 months in prison on June 6 for his role in a $3.8 million healthcare fraud scheme.

Align Technology's stock fell 12.4 percent in May with the decrease attributed to poor overall market conditions, according to a report from The Motley Fool.

Beam Dental, a dental insurer, has teamed up with Ease, a human resources and benefits software provider.

A Greensburg, Pa.-based dental group filed a lawsuit on June 6 against a patient who allegedly posted false statements about the practice on Facebook, according to the Tribune-Review.

Here's the latest roundup of dentists in the headlines this past week.

A new artificial intelligence system that uses natural language processing could be deployed at dental offices to craft patient treatment plans for dentists, according to VentureBeast.