Allstate Insurance Co. has filed an insurance fraud lawsuit against 10 New York-area defendants, including a surgery center management company, seeking to recover $5 million, according to an Allstate news release.
The complaint cites one corporation, one physician, five medical professional corporations and three non-physician individuals.
The corporation cited is Uptown Health Care Management. Allstate claims Uptown established a surgery center in the Bronx and a medical clinic in Manhattan which fraudulently billed the insurance company, according to the release.
Allstate claims the five medical professional corporations were fraudulently incorporated through a scheme that used the names of licensed medical physicians, and that a non-physician lay-owner secretly owned and controlled the corporations.
This is Allstate's fourth insurance fraud lawsuit of 2011.
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