{"id":313361,"date":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313361\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:58:08","slug":"dentist-who-faked-extractions-and-forged-records-jailed-for-defrauding-hse-over-17-year-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313361\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentist who faked extractions and forged records jailed for defrauding HSE over 17-year period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Kiely claimed to extract 32 teeth from an 82\u2011year\u2011old woman despite her having all her teeth removed at 16One elderly woman was unable to get dentures because he had submitted a fake claim in her nameFor years Kiely was one of the largest dental earners under the medical card scheme\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jerome Kiely. Photo: Paddy Cummins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d85d50f9-07b3-4a1f-9348-59b908368cec.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jerome Kiely. Photo: Paddy Cummins<\/p>\n<p>Niamh O\u2019Donoghue and Isabel Hayes<\/p>\n<p>Today at 17:15<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Tipperary dentist who \u201cbrought utter ruination on himself\u201d by defrauding the HSE of \u20ac58,000 over a 17-year period has been jailed for one year and ordered to pay \u20ac100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jerome Kiely (47) of Acraboy House, Monard, Co Tipperary pleaded guilty last November at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one sample count of dishonestly inducing the HSE to provide a payment of \u20ac326 for dentures on May 12, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Kiely claimed to extract 32 teeth from an 82\u2011year\u2011old woman despite her having all her teeth removed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,2120,61,60,26023,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-313361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-hse","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ken-foy","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}