VALDOSTA — A Valdosta dentist was sentenced to two years and three months in prison Thursday for charging Medicaid for extracting teeth he did not pull.

Dr. Stanley B. Marable, DDS, 55, will go to federal prison for his 2016 guilty plea of health-care fraud, according to federal court records. U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson also sentenced Marable to pay a $5,000 fine; he will face two years of supervision upon his release from prison, according to court documents.

Marable faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine up to $250,000 and up to three years of supervised release.

Marable paid a total of $789,841 in restitution to the Georgia Medicaid Program prior to his sentencing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In April 2016, a federal indictment accused Marable of 12 counts of health care fraud. The counts covered incidents from 2011 into 2013, according to court documents.

While practicing dentistry in Valdosta, court records claim Marable received Georgia Medicaid reimbursements for some of his patients, according to court documents.

The Georgia Department of Community Health, Division of Medical Assistance requested an audit of Marable’s records. The Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts performed the audit but discovered “several billing irregularities,” according to federal court records.

The Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the irregularities and reportedly found between January 2011 through Sept. 30, 2013, that “Dr. Marable was paid for 3,145 claims for the extraction of teeth and received Medicaid payments for these extractions totaling more than $789,000,” according to records. “The investigation of the claims, however, revealed that Dr. Marable had not extracted the teeth from many of the patients for whom claims of reimbursement had been submitted.”

Other patients claimed they had never had teeth extracted.

One person claimed to not even know Marable was a dentist, according to federal records.

“Dr. Marable’s conduct in this case was egregious,” said U.S. Attorney G.F. “Pete” Peterman in a prepared statement Thursday. “In many cases, he claimed to have pulled 20 or more teeth from a single patient. In one case, he claimed to have extracted 31 of the patient’s 32 teeth. He fully deserves the sentence imposed upon him today.”