NHS seeks to extract £800k from dentists
NHS Lothian is attempting to reclaim more than £800,000 in fees wrongfully paid to dentists.
The health board has refused to reveal why such a large sum is owed but the national body responsible for processing dentists' fees said most over-payments were due to a "misinterpretation of the fees and regulations".
The figure is more than the total amount recovered from dentists across Scotland over the past 15 years.
NHS Lothian was ordered to reveal the figure by the Scottish Information Commissioner after two-year-long Freedom of Information battle.
Earlier this month is emerged that dentists in Scotland have been paid millions of pounds for patients who were dead or registered with other practices.
Mike Pringle, Liberal Democrat MSP for Edinburgh South, said: "This is an astonishingly large sum of money."
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