{"id":4869,"date":"2026-06-23T02:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-queens-pharmacy-over-alleged-1-2-million-no-fault-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:46:36","slug":"geico-sues-queens-pharmacy-over-alleged-1-2-million-no-fault-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-queens-pharmacy-over-alleged-1-2-million-no-fault-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"GEICO sues Queens pharmacy over alleged $1.2 million no-fault scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{6402a7e6-6b9c-4f69-9724-61be06edaf3b}{110}\" paraid=\"801252200\">For claims teams, the alleged playbook is the story. GEICO says the pharmacy zeroed in on a few pricey topical pain products &#8211; Diclofenac Sodium 2% Solution, Diclofenac Sodium Gel 3%, and Lidocaine 5% Ointment &#8211; plus the oral\u00a0Vimovo\u00a0Products. The filing lists typical charges of $2,686.88, $2,358, and $2,217.84 per prescription, respectively. According to the complaint, comparable drugs sell over the counter for far less; it cites Lidocaine options at &#8220;Rite-Aid and Target for advertised prices in the range of $10.&#8221; Those topical products alone made up about 75% of the billing GEICO received &#8211; more than $920,000, the filing says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For claims teams, the alleged playbook is the story. GEICO says the pharmacy zeroed in on a few pricey topical pain products &#8211; Diclofenac Sodium 2% Solution, Diclofenac Sodium Gel 3%, and Lidocaine 5% Ointment &#8211; plus the oral\u00a0Vimovo\u00a0Products. The filing lists typical charges of $2,686.88, $2,358, and $2,217.84 per prescription, respectively. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1513,1268,511,1683,3854,1461,1597,1258],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alleged","tag-geico","tag-million","tag-nofault","tag-pharmacy","tag-queens","tag-scheme","tag-sues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}