A Central City dentist accepted a plea agreement in a Medicaid fraud case, Attorney General Jack Conway and his Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control announced Tuesday.

Dr. Timothy Underwood, 58, was sentenced in Franklin Circuit Court on Sept. 11 for presenting false claims to the Kentucky Medical Assistance Program.

He was indicted on charges that he defrauded the Kentucky Medicaid Program in December 2006.

Underwood will receive a 12-month sentence that will be conditionally discharged on the condition that he pay more than $7,000 in restitution to the Kentucky Medicaid Program and $3,500 in investigative costs to the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, according to a press release from Conway’s office.

The defendant has also agreed to never again be a provider in the Kentucky Medicaid Program.

From March 8, 1998, through March 31, 2003, Underwood submitted duplicate bills to the Kentucky Medicaid Program giving the perception that procedures were performed by two dentists, while they were actually performed by just one dentist, the press release states.

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