Indiana brothers Justyn and Trystan Arch defrauded Medicaid of $365K; Justyn sentenced to 36 months

This case underscores how embezzlement — a specific form of financial theft — can occur even in practices with long-tenured, trusted staff.

Dental managers admitted to using their father’s dental practice in Indiana to defraud Medicaid out of $365,000 for fake dental surgeries and have pleaded guilty, according to a story published on January 19 in the Chicago Tribune.

Justyn Arch, 34, and Trystan Arch, 31, who previously worked at Arch Complete Family Dentistry in Indiana, admitted to using the dental license of their father, Dr. Joseph Arch Sr., to bill Medicaid for $365,000 in dental surgeries that did not take place. Their father was president of the practice until he died in 2017.

Additionally, the brothers admitted to filing a false tax return.

Now, the former dental managers must pay $120,000 to the Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and $63,000 in restitution to the IRS. They will be sentenced at a later date.

In 2021, the brothers were charged in a single-count grand jury indictment in which the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana accused the brothers of defrauding the state Medicaid program by falsifying patient files, claiming dental surgery when none had been performed.

Update: 36-Month Federal Sentence

On June 18, 2026, Justyn Arch, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip P. Simon in Hammond, Indiana, to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $520,897 in restitution. Arch had pleaded guilty to health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and tax evasion for falsely billing Indiana Medicaid for hundreds of dental surgeries that were never performed and concealing the proceeds from the IRS. His brother Trystan Arch’s sentencing had not been publicly reported as of this update.

Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Indiana