A former Fall River dentist has been indicted on charges that he made $130,000 in false Medicaid claims, illegally prescribed drugs he used for himself and placed paper clips in patients’ mouths instead of stainless steel posts during root canals to save money.
Michael Clair, who practiced at Harbour Dental Care in the New Harbour Mall, is scheduled to be formally charged on April 8 in Superior Court. A grand jury indicted him last Friday.
Clair was suspended from the Medicaid program in 2002 and did not have authority to submit claims, the state attorney general’s office said. The attorney general’s Medicaid fraud division, which began investigating Clair in 2005, alleges that Clair hired several dentists at Harbour Dental who were eligible to make Medicaid claims so they could file claims for dental services he performed.
Clair is accused of fraudulently billing about $130,000 in dental work between August 2003 and June 2005. [...]

Original post by Grant Welker