{"id":2638,"date":"2025-10-13T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-florida-clinic-claims-4-6-million-pip-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:06:23","slug":"geico-sues-florida-clinic-claims-4-6-million-pip-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-florida-clinic-claims-4-6-million-pip-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"GEICO sues Florida clinic, claims $4.6 million PIP fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GEICO and its affiliated companies have filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, against A J Therapy Center Inc., its owner Ramon Jimenez, and physician Jose Luis Cruz, M.D. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants wrongfully obtained more than $4,600,000.00 from GEICO by submitting thousands of fraudulent and unlawful no-fault (PIP) insurance charges through AJ Therapy. These charges, according to the complaint, related to medically unnecessary, illusory, unlawful, and non-reimbursable health care services and goods\u2014including initial and follow-up examinations, physical therapy, home medical equipment, and related services\u2014purportedly provided to Florida automobile accident victims eligible for coverage under GEICO PIP insurance policies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEICO and its affiliated companies have filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, against A J Therapy Center Inc., its owner Ramon Jimenez, and physician Jose Luis Cruz, M.D. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants wrongfully obtained more than $4,600,000.00 from GEICO by submitting thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263,1610,1188,234,1268,511,1491,1597,1258],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-claims","tag-clinic","tag-florida","tag-fraud","tag-geico","tag-million","tag-pip","tag-scheme","tag-sues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}