Board puts Johnson City chiropractor on probation for filing false insurance claimsPublished: 2009-07-04 00:20:53Author: Sue Guinn Legg | Kingsport Times News | June 19, 2009The Tennessee Department of Health’s Board of Chiropractor Examiners
has placed Johnson City Chiropractor Dwight C. Whynot’s license on
probation for a year for allowing unlicensed clinic staff to practice
and filing false insurance claims for services never preformed.
An
agreed order entered by the Board and Whynot of Whynot Chiropractic
Clinic, 110 University Parkway, in May, stipulates that a complaint
against Whynot heard by the board on May 14 resulted in the following
findings of fact:
- Whynot was licensed to practice chiropracty
in Tennessee in March 9, 2000, and beginning as early as early as July
2000 and continuing until at least December 2005, allowed unlicensed
individuals to practice in his office as chiropractic therapy
assistants and chiropractic X- ray technologists and until
approximately December 2004, billed insurance companies under his name
and provider number for services rendered by the unlicensed individuals
working for him.
- According to the order, Whynot’s actions
constituted violations of the state’s Chiropractic Examiners Practice
Act subject to disciplinary action, including immoral, unethical,
unprofessional or dishonorable conduct through the knowing and
purposeful incorrect reporting of treatment dates, services rendered,
charging for services not rendered and obtaining payment from a
third-party payor.
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