Doctors conspiring to cheat New York's no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) system are writing a prescription for trouble—and perhaps professional suicide.
A rigorous, statewide initiative is under way to close medical offices billing for services that are either wholly unnecessary or never rendered to auto accident victims. Under the new regulation, physicians engaging in unscrupulous billing practices to siphon funds from New York's PIP system will ostensibly turn themselves into pariahs, at least in the professional sense.
The new regulation, which the Department of Financial Services (DFS) is issuing under the direction of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, implements a 2005 law that affords DFS the power to regulate doctor participation in the no-fault system. Doctors found to be in violation would be banned from the PIP system altogether and possibly stripped of certification.
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