ATIC Files $28M Lawsuit Against Health Care Providers and Others.

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BROOKLYN, NY -- American Transit has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, New York County against multiple defendants including medical doctors, chiropractors, ambulatory surgery centers and related parties alleging that the Defendants submitted fraudulent and abusive claims under the New York automobile no-fault coverage. This coverage provides for reimbursement of health care expenses as well as other benefits. American Transit has received over $28 million in claims from these Defendants. American Transit seeks a declaration that it has no obligation to pay these claims and to recover the payments that it has made.

The complaint alleges that the Defendants billed abusively and were paid over five million dollars by American Transit. The Defendants included a number of related entities who referred patients to each other in order to inflate the billing and in many cases without regard to the needs of the patients. The complaint alleges that unnecessary services and services that were not provided as billed were billed to American Transit. The Complaint alleges that numerous unnecessary manipulations under anesthesia were billed with the administration of unnecessary anesthesia. Numerous patients were brought from New York to another State in order to inflate the billing.

The complaint was filed against the following defendants: Peter D. Albis, D.C., Reuven Alon aka Rob Alon, Diana Beynin, D.C., Nachmy Bronstein, D.C., Ronald A. Hayek, D.C., Mark Heyligers, D.C., Todd Koppel, M.D., Margarita Moshe, Regina Moshe aka Regina Leviyev, M.D., Yan Moshe aka Yan Leviyev, Ramkumar Panhani, M.D., Dipti R. Patel, D.C., Leonid Shapiro, M.D., Advanced Spinal Care Rehabilitation, PA, Albis Chiropractic Care, P.C., Axis Chiropractic Care, P.C., Citimed Services, P.A., Citimedical I, P.L.L.C, Columbus Imaging Center, L.L.C., Drugs R Us Pharmacy, Inc., Dynamic Surgery Center, L.L.C., Dynasty...