Caught on camera
Here are some dental practice incidents that were caught on camera Teaching your kids to steal. Dental “patients” steal credit cards from practice. The...
It’s the most powerful fraud deterrent; ever.
The Perception of Detection Imagine you are in a hurry and driving much faster than usual. You’re late for an important event that cannot...
A heuristic tool to assess an advisor’s trustworthiness
We often need trusted advisors to help us with our most pressing problems. There are many types of advisors; personal advisors, business advisors, legal...
Empowering Dental EFT & ERA Technology in the Digital Age
By Chris Haines – Dental WebSmart Solutions. It may not be surprising to learn that the National Automated Clearinghouse Association stated that only 86%...
Judge sentences Backus woman who embezzled funds from dental office
The woman admitted stealing from her former employer, that it had been going on since 2013 and she did it to support her gambling...
How to buy a Dental Practice
By Brian Hanks (www.brianhanks.com) I got a call from a dental practice owner in Florida last week who wanted to understand something about a...
Ex-employee of engineer gets prison for office theft
Jan 2021, LISBON, OH – Melissa K. Brennen, the longtime employee of the county engineer’s office caught stealing tax map money, was sentenced to...
How to Tell if Embezzlement is Happening in Your Dental Office
I wrote this article back in 2012 – the same principles hold true today. IT’S A FACT: Changes in employee behavior is often the...
It’s 4:00am. I’m burning the midnight oil, and there it is again!
I just spied a TeamViewer icon on the desktop of another dental practice computer. I checked to see if the TeamViewer program was registered...
O’Fallon woman indicted for embezzling $1.68 millon from retired doctor
At the height of the alleged theft, Dvorak “was stealing over 50 percent of plaintiff’s gross income” FEB 2020 – An O’Fallon woman is...
Embezzler redirected Medicaid payments to her own account.
AUG 2020 TULSA, Okla. – A Broken Arrow woman is out on bond after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer....
Dental embezzler gets nine months of electronic home monitoring.
May 2016 – The former manager of a dental office in Bothell, Washington is facing felony charges in connection with false insurance claims and...
Australian Dental Employee Tina Maree Bartlem stole $750K from dental practice
AUS 2017 – A Gold Coast mother has been jailed for seven years for siphoning almost $800,000 from her boss. Watch the 7 News...
Emily Trimble accused of stealing hundreds of thousands from Atlanta Dental Spa
Emily Trimble was arrested back in 2015 by the Roswell Police Department She was booked for Computer Forgery and Financial Transaction Card Fraud. Emily...
Woman admits to stealing more than $400K from Ultradent
Feb. 26, 2013 – SALT LAKE CITY — A South Jordan woman admitted Monday that she embezzled more than $400,000 from her employer over...