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Peter Bowditch - 21 Nov 2005 00:35 GMT

From this week's update to The Millenium Project

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The Cavitat Crowd of Crooks

A Cavitat is a machine which is used to detect a condition called
"neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis", or NICO. Upon
discovery of a case of NICO, much pulling of healthy teeth and teeth
with either fillings or root canal treatments is done, leaving the
patient toothless and cashless. The Cavitat machine is not approved by
the FDA for the detection of NICO and NICO is not recognised as any
form of medical or dental condition.

None of this has stopped crooked dentists from using these machines to
diagnose this non-existent condition and then charging much money to
fix it. The insurance company Aetna has a specific policy against
paying for NICO repairs or work done as a result of a NICO diagnosis,
but again this has not stopped the crooked dentists from finding ways
to get paid from Aetna's funds. When Aetna finally took action to stop
the fraud the crooked dentists sued Aetna, claiming that the company
was part of some massive conspiracy involving the FDA, the American
Dental Association, and just about everyone who was not a party to the
Cavitat fraud. They lost.

Aetna came back with a counterclaim, and the details were made public
this week by the court. (Just in case you think that I am publishing
some secret document, you can see the unsealing order at
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/ni/comment/aetna3.pdf) One of the nice
things they did was exhibit a list of fraudulent insurance claims made
by some of the crooked dentists, and you can see that list at
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/ni/comment/aetna2.pdf. The best part,
however, is the complete counterclaim, which describes in detail the
nature of the medical fraud of the Cavitat machine itself and the
financial fraud of the crooked dentists who tried various ways to get
around Aetna's policy of not paying for this quackery. Read the full
counterclaim at http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/comment/aetna1.pdf, and
notice the familiar names - Huggins, Haley, Bolen ...

One small disappointment for me was that Aetna's lawyers were far too
polite, and in all the places where they quote the crooks and say
"Spelling and grammar corrected" I would have left the illiteracies
there for all to see.

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Tony Bad - 21 Nov 2005 01:58 GMT

Interesting reading...thanks!

> From this week's update to The Millenium Project
>
> http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/
>
> The Cavitat Crowd of Crooks

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Captain Odontologie - 22 Nov 2005 19:56 GMT

I found the text to be enlightening. Especially once I realized that AETNA
actually expects to get a major amount of money back through this suit. I
bet that just the moneys refunded to AETNA for fraudulent work done in the
name of the holy god "NICO" will more than pay for the legal procedingings.
Add back in the legal costs for this and for the previous suit, and I can
see Shakland, Hugins and the rest shaking in their boots. Don't be
surprised if there is a mass emigration of NICO doctors to Mexico or Panama
(or whatever) very soon. Kind of makes you wonder about certain dentists
who claim not to have used the Cavitat machine, but are firm supporters of
NICO and also claimed they quit practicing since they could not make enough
money to cover overhead. Just raises my curiosity a bit. Spelling and
grammar errors, hmm. Sounds familiar.

Capt'n "O"

> From this week's update to The Millenium Project
>
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> "Spelling and grammar corrected" I would have left the illiteracies
> there for all to see.

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Tony Bad - 22 Nov 2005 21:50 GMT

> I found the text to be enlightening. Especially once I realized that AETNA
> actually expects to get a major amount of money back through this suit. I
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Capt'n "O"

The unnamed person you MAY be referring to wrote his book in 2002, when
Aetna was back on its heels and the Cavitat crowd was pushing forward, yet
his book spoke against this device, indicating that more study was needed in
order to prove it did what it said. I actually felt a bit better about his
work when I read this. Once again, I don't agree with the man's statements,
but don't want to see him blasted for the wrong reasons. I personally don't
think this Aetna business has anything to do with him.

T

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Clinton - 23 Nov 2005 06:41 GMT

> The unnamed person you MAY be referring to wrote his book in 2002, when
> Aetna was back on its heels and the Cavitat crowd was pushing forward, yet
> his book spoke against this device, indicating that more study was needed in
> order to prove it did what it said.

Correct, in fact this person feels they lost a significant amount of
business
from referrals because they didn't use the cavitat. In fact even using
the cavitat is probably profitable. At $1000 a scan you could make
thousands a month just from the machine itself.

I actually felt a bit better about his

> work when I read this. Once again, I don't agree with the man's statements,
> but don't want to see him blasted for the wrong reasons. I personally don't
> think this Aetna business has anything to do with him.

Correct. Actually I think Bob Jones really believes that the cavitat
works.
Of course Aetna is just trying to defend themselves from BJ's lawsuit.

> T

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