Dentist faces sentencing for faking extractions and forging records in major HSE fraud
Dentist Jerome Kiely admitted fabricating dental treatments, forging records and patient signatures, and submitting false Medical Card claims, defrauding the HSE and patients.
Exodus of dentists from medical card scheme leaves thousands of people without free care
More than half of dentists have left the medical card scheme, leaving thousands without entitled free dental care, triggering a crisis in school dental screenings.