Allstate slaps four clinics with suit for alleged fraud.Allstate Insurance Co. has filed a civil lawsuit seeking $1.8 million in damages in United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. Southern District of Florida against 26 people the company alleged were involved in a network of "sham clinics" that used runners and staged accidents to defraud insurance companies. The group of four clinics, called SHP Enterprise Clinics and based in North Miami Beach North Miami Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 35,359), Dade co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1931. It is a major office and retail area. , was involved in a massive fraudulent billing scheme, Allstate said in a statement. The insurer alleged that runners recruited people to stage auto accidents and be treated at the clinics. They also referred patients, who bad been involved in minor accidents but hadn't been injured, to the clinics, Allstate charged. The complaint said the clinics billed Allstate for services that weren't medically necessary medically necessary Managed care adjective Referring to a covered service or treatment that is absolutely necessary to protect and enhance the health status of a Pt, and could adversely affect the Pt's condition if omitted, in accordance with accepted and, in some cases, never were rendered. The scheme went on for nearly four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time complaint said, with the clinics billing Allstate for more than $3 million dollars. |
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