TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma oral surgeon whose filthy clinics led to thousands of patients being tested for HIV and hepatitis has been charged in federal court with money laundering.
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that W. Scott Harrington is accused of laundering money by fraudulently billing Medicaid and Medicare while he practiced dentistry in 2012.
Harrington's two Tulsa-area clinics were shuttered in March 2013, when state health officials urged about 7,000 of his current and former patients to get tested for the diseases because of unsanitary conditions. Harrington surrendered his professional license in 2014.
Of 4,202 patients tested at state clinics, 89 had hepatitis C, five had hepatitis B and four had the virus that causes AIDS.
A message seeking comment from Harrington's attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday.