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NY Targets Doctors Suspected of PIP Fraud

Doctors conspiring to cheat the no-fault system are writing a prescription for trouble. NY regulations now impose stiff penalties, decertification.

By Christina Bramlet | Updated on March 29, 2012

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.

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