Board puts Johnson City chiropractor on probation for filing false insurance claims
Published: 2009-07-04 00:20:53
Author: Sue Guinn Legg | Kingsport Times News | June 19, 2009
The Tennessee Department of Health’s Board of Chiropractor Examiners has placed Johnson City Chiropractor Dwight C. Whynot’s license on probation for a year for allowing unlicensed clinic staff to practice and filing false insurance claims for services never preformed.
An agreed order entered by the Board and Whynot of Whynot Chiropractic Clinic, 110 University Parkway, in May, stipulates that a complaint against Whynot heard by the board on May 14 resulted in the following findings of fact:
- Whynot was licensed to practice chiropracty in Tennessee in March 9, 2000, and beginning as early as early as July 2000 and continuing until at least December 2005, allowed unlicensed individuals to practice in his office as chiropractic therapy assistants and chiropractic X- ray technologists and until approximately December 2004, billed insurance companies under his name and provider number for services rendered by the unlicensed individuals working for him.
- According to the order, Whynot’s actions constituted violations of the state’s Chiropractic Examiners Practice Act subject to disciplinary action, including immoral, unethical, unprofessional or dishonorable conduct through the knowing and purposeful incorrect reporting of treatment dates, services rendered, charging for services not rendered and obtaining payment from a third-party payor.
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Published: 2009-07-04 00:20:53
Author: Sue Guinn Legg | Kingsport Times News | June 19, 2009
The Tennessee Department of Health’s Board of Chiropractor Examiners has placed Johnson City Chiropractor Dwight C. Whynot’s license on probation for a year for allowing unlicensed clinic staff to practice and filing false insurance claims for services never preformed.
An agreed order entered by the Board and Whynot of Whynot Chiropractic Clinic, 110 University Parkway, in May, stipulates that a complaint against Whynot heard by the board on May 14 resulted in the following findings of fact:
- Whynot was licensed to practice chiropracty in Tennessee in March 9, 2000, and beginning as early as early as July 2000 and continuing until at least December 2005, allowed unlicensed individuals to practice in his office as chiropractic therapy assistants and chiropractic X- ray technologists and until approximately December 2004, billed insurance companies under his name and provider number for services rendered by the unlicensed individuals working for him.
- According to the order, Whynot’s actions constituted violations of the state’s Chiropractic Examiners Practice Act subject to disciplinary action, including immoral, unethical, unprofessional or dishonorable conduct through the knowing and purposeful incorrect reporting of treatment dates, services rendered, charging for services not rendered and obtaining payment from a third-party payor.
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