“We celebrate this win—this win that we made happen—even while mourning the loss of every person who relied on Medicaid and didn’t survive the calamity of Trump’s disastrous administration.” The Biden administration on Friday is expected to begin the process of rescinding a Trump policy allowing states to impose punitive work requirements on Medicaid recipients, […]
On Friday, after a five-week bench trial, Anchorage dentist Seth Lookhart, was found guilty of 46 counts that included Medicaid Assistance Fraud, felony Scheme to Defraud, and misdemeanor counts of Illegal Practice of Dentistry, and Reckless Endangerment by Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton and his corporation, Lookhart Dental LLC was found guilty of 40 […]
ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is reinstating Alaska’s adult preventive dental program (also known as the Adult Enhanced Dental Program) for Medicaid recipients effective Dec. 31, 2019. Program services will also be retroactively covered to Oct. 1, 2019, when the program was discontinued as part of an overall effort to […]
(ANCHORAGE, AK) – On Thursday, November 21, 2019, Anchorage State Superior Court Judge Catherine Easter sentenced three defendants to felony jail terms for a years-long fraud scheme against the state Medicaid program. Prosecutors alleged that between 2010 and 2017, Victor Aldeza, 60; Regino Aldeza, 49; and Albert Aldeza, 43, all of Anchorage, defrauded the state Medicaid […]