Dental clinics recruit Medicaid patients off the streets with promises of cash - NYPOST.com

Dental clinics recruit Medicaid patients off the streets with promises of cash - NYPOST.com: "Dentists are using hawkers on the streets of Harlem to lure Medicaid cardholders to their clinics with promises of cash, The Post has learned.

The practice is illegal and often a sign of fraud, according to the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, which oversees the state's cash-strapped public insurance fund.

The hawkers unwittingly gave two Post reporters an inside peek at their operations.

'Dentist, dentist, dentist! Get paid $20 to $40! Medicaid!' barked Victor Sotille on the corner of 123rd Street and Lexington Avenue on Friday."