A dental manager who, with his brother, admitted to using their father’s dental practice in Indiana to defraud Medicaid out of $365,000 for fake dental surgeries was sentenced to prison, according to multiple news stories.
Justyn Arch, 34, and Trystan Arch, 31, pleaded guilty in February to insurance fraud, tax fraud, and identity theft. Justyn was sentenced on June 18 to three years in prison. Trystan is scheduled to be sentenced later this summer.
The brothers, who previously worked at Arch Complete Family Dentistry in Indiana, admitted to using the dental license of their father, Dr. Joseph Arch Sr., to bill Medicaid for $365,000 in dental surgeries that were never performed. Their father was president of the practice until he died in 2017.
Additionally, the pair admitted to filing a false tax return.
As part of their plea deal, they must pay $120,000 to the Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and $63,000 in restitution to the IRS.
In 2021, the brothers were charged in a single-count grand jury indictment in which the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana accused the brothers of defrauding the state Medicaid program by falsifying patient files, claiming dental surgery when none had been performed.
