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October 19, 2012

Lawsuit: Aspen Dental clinics operating illegally

  • The chain has clinics in 22 states, including Washington.
    • By GEORGE M. WALSH
    Associated Press

    ALBANY, N.Y. — Aspen Dental Management and the private equity firm that controls it illegally operate dental clinics across the country and engage in aggressive, misleading profit-driven practices that cause patients economic harm, claims a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in New York.

    East Syracuse-based Aspen and Leonard Green and Partners are violating laws that require clinics to be owned by dentists actively performing procedures onsite to prevent business interests from trumping those of patients, according to court papers filed at U.S. District Court in Albany.


     
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