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A New Jersey dentist who allegedly prescribed hundreds of doses of painkillers to his girlfriend could face disciplinary action.

A complaint filed with the state Board of Dentistry by Attorney General Anne Milgram alleges that Gary Schneiderman issued 1,880 doses of Percocet and 13 doses of Oxycontin to the woman, who was not his patient.

Schneiderman, a former mayor of Livingston who practices in Jersey City, is also accused of providing the woman with blank prescriptions, knowing she would use them to obtain more of the painkillers.

The dentistry board could suspend or revoke Schneiderman’s license.

No one answered the phone at his practice Thursday; a home number could not be located.

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• Philly

A Syosset, N.Y., dentist will serve a minimum of two years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to submitting bogus medical claims for Port Authority police officers, costing MetLife $600,000.

Barry Cohan, 51, will have to forfeit the money he received from MetLife as part of plea arrangement reached June 10 in a Brooklyn court, according to Newsday. A federal grand jury indicted the dentist in 2007.

Prosecutors say Cohan fraudulently billed the Port Authority dental plan for more than the actual cost of procedures and also billed for some procedures he never performed.
When the plan stopped making payments, the report said, Cohan began submitting charges under the name of another dentist.

Cohan’s attorney said prosecutors in the case let nearly 30 Port Authority officers escape charges who had their names used in the overbilling and never made a co-payment for their dental work, according to Newsday.

A spokesman for the Port Authority inspector general told the newspaper that an investigation is “active” involving dental claims for some of its officers.

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• IFA Web News