A dentist in Wilmington, North Carolina who was recently charged with four counts of fraud has been told that she can continue to practice again. Marieve Rodriguez had been arrested and charged with twenty counts of felony health care fraud earlier this month, but has since been charged with four further counts since her original arrest. She has made numerous claims to the state Medicaid programme for procedures that she never completed, and was arrested at the Gentle Care Family Dentistry offices.
Thirty-nine year old Marieve O. Rodriguez was charged with obtaining and distributing controlled substances by fraud or theft, but has been recently told that she will be allowed to treat patients again. However, she will not be allowed to provide prescriptions due to new drug charges. Investigators had apparently found drugs on her person when she was arrested on the seventeenth of August but was only charged once the prescriptions on the drug containers were found to be fraudulent.
On Monday, Judge John K. Welch of the Court of Common Pleas removed the conditions that had prohibited Rodriguez from practicing dentistry, however the new charges meant that she could not write prescriptions. Miss Rodriguez’s attorney, Christopher A. Iacono did not comment on the new charges but said of her reopening the practice; ‘She is making arrangements to start back up as soon as possible.’
