{"id":860289,"date":"2026-09-25T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:12:20","slug":"dearborn-woman-billed-medicaid-for-dental-work-that-never-happened-at-clinic-ag-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860289\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearborn woman billed Medicaid for dental work that never happened at clinic, AG says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lina Abraham, 41, facing 15 felony charges<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A Dearborn woman is facing multiple charges in an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Lina Abraham, 41, was charged with one count of conducting a criminal enterprise and 14 counts of Medicaid fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, while working as an office manager at a Dearborn dental clinic, Abraham allegedly repeatedly billed Medicaid for dental crowns that were never provided to patients under her employing clinic\u2019s former name, Artistic Dentistry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Michigan Attorney General\u2019s Office said it does not suspect others associated with the dental clinic were involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Abraham was arraigned in court on Sept. 23 and is expected to return to court on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Attorney General\u2019s Health Care Fraud Division is handling the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamantha Sayles headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FAVKLJD4CJAJBAWAD65WML2O4U.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/team\/ssayles\/\" title=\"View Samantha Sayles&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Sayles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Samantha Sayles is an Oakland University alumna who\u2019s been writing Michigan news since 2022. Before joining the ClickOnDetroit team, she wrote stories for WILX in Lansing and WEYI in Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lina Abraham, 41, facing 15 felony charges A Dearborn woman is facing multiple charges in an alleged Medicaid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[81391,97,252,253,27208],"class_list":["post-860289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-dearborn","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-wayne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}