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Department of Public Health board declines to discuss optometrist fraud report after staff cautions against comment
Summary
At a Department of Public Health meeting, members declined to discuss a newspaper report that an optometrist in Bristol faces alleged Medicaid-fraud charges after staff warned an investigation and formal charging process would have to run first and that off-agenda discussion could prejudice a future hearing.
At a Department of Public Health meeting, the board declined to open a discussion about a newspaper report that an optometrist in Bristol was facing alleged Medicaid-fraud charges after staff cautioned that any investigation and charging process would be handled separately.
The chair raised the news item, asking whether the case would be within the board’s purview. The chair said, "I was reading something in the newspaper about an optom in Bristol who was had charges of Medicaid fraud," and asked whether…
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