Claire Batsell, the financial clerk of a dental practice in Brownsville, Texas, was sentenced to prison for using patient identifying information to open credit card accounts and submit fraudulent charges, while simultaneously pocketing cash payments from patients. The dual scheme — identity theft combined with cash diversion — reflects the broad criminal exposure that dental practices face when a single employee has unsupervised access to both patient data and cash receipts.
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