Some Dentists Push Medical Credit Cards on Patients
California legal aid attorneys say they are seeing a rise in dental debt cases in which dentists urge low-income and elderly patients to apply for medical credit cards to cover treatments they cannot afford. Most patients say they were misled in applying for the cards, and others say they were charged for services they never received.
- "Dental Debt Has Wronged Patients Biting Back" (George, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 6/12).