Chapter Fifteen
“Charles persuaded Hugh he should do some funny business with the billing,” said Buddy, studying Myrtle carefully as if assessing how much she really knew about the whole business.
Myrtle nodded. “That’s right,” she said. She hesitated, trying to think how this might have been done. “So Dr. Bass started billing insurance companies for work he hadn’t actually done on the patients?” It was a wild guess.
But it was an accurate one. Buddy nodded again. “Yep. Billing for fillings and crowns when he’d only done a cleaning. That kind of thing. Of course it caught up to him eventually.”
Miles shot her a look. She had a feeling that he wasn’t going to soon forgive her for forcing him to get his teeth looked at by a criminal.
“Jail time,” she hazarded.
“Exactly. He owned up to
