Harpaul Anand

In a professional discipline hearing, the panel accepted the member’s admissions to multiple misconduct allegations involving deficient recordkeeping, excessive or unreasonable fees, false or misleading insurance accounts, and failure to collect patient co-payments.

The misconduct arose from treatment and billing practices across multiple dental offices over several years, including inaccurate charting, missing documentation, incorrect billing codes, claims using treatment dates that did not match actual service dates, and routine write-offs of co-payments.

The panel found the admitted facts substantiated professional misconduct under the governing health-professions regime and accepted a joint penalty submission notwithstanding concern about the member’s prior similar discipline history.

The penalty included a reprimand, a four-month suspension, remedial education, practice monitoring, suspension-related restrictions, and $5,000 in costs.

Professional discipline decision arising from a dentist’s admitted failure to respond appropriately to repeated written enquiries from the regulator, failure to produce and maintain a patient record, and failure to cooperate with an investigation.

The panel accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and found all misconduct allegations proven, except that the College did not seek a finding that the member was ungovernable.

The panel accepted a joint submission on penalty imposing an immediate suspension until the patient record is produced, followed by a consecutive three-month suspension, remedial education, practice monitoring, and costs.

A publication restriction protected the identities of patients named in the notice of hearing and agreed statement of facts.