{"id":4938,"date":"2026-07-02T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-over-alleged-no-fault-fraud-in-two-states\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:21:38","slug":"geico-sues-over-alleged-no-fault-fraud-in-two-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/geico-sues-over-alleged-no-fault-fraud-in-two-states\/","title":{"rendered":"GEICO sues over alleged No-Fault fraud in two states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{27649198-e9d7-4211-ba7c-07bcd4f9c2da}{136}\" paraid=\"2142805615\">Two claims stand out. GEICO says physical therapy was done, if at all, by &#8220;massage therapists&#8221; and &#8220;unlicensed\/unsupervised personnel,&#8221; then billed under licensed practitioners&#8217; names, because Florida bars PIP payment for massage-therapist work; it cites single days when one practitioner purportedly performed or supervised at least 57 hours of therapy across multiple locations. It also alleges a &#8220;secret and unlawful patient brokering agreement,&#8221; in which one therapy clinic steered patients to imaging clinics that, in exchange, stamped them with false &#8220;emergency medical condition&#8221; diagnoses &#8211; conduct GEICO says breaches Florida&#8217;s Patient Brokering Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two claims stand out. GEICO says physical therapy was done, if at all, by &#8220;massage therapists&#8221; and &#8220;unlicensed\/unsupervised personnel,&#8221; then billed under licensed practitioners&#8217; names, because Florida bars PIP payment for massage-therapist work; it cites single days when one practitioner purportedly performed or supervised at least 57 hours of therapy across multiple locations. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1513,234,1268,1683,2786,1258],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alleged","tag-fraud","tag-geico","tag-nofault","tag-states","tag-sues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}