State Farm Awarded Summary Judgment In Suit Over Fraudulent X-Ray Bills

Mealey's (November 11, 2015, 12:58 PM EST) -- MIAMI — A federal judge in Florida on Nov. 9 granted State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.’s motion for summary judgment in a suit it brought against a medical diagnostic services firm, two of its medical directors and two of its X-ray technicians and ordered the defendants to pay $1.4 million to the company, after finding that bills the defendants submitted to the insurer were noncompensable and unlawful (State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al. v. B&A Diagnostic Inc., n/k/a Oasis Medical Center Corp., et al., No. 14-cv-24387-KMM, S.D. Fla.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151743)....