Magistrate Says GEICO Must Decide Litigation Strategy In Fraudulent Billing Suit

Mealey's (January 19, 2021, 2:17 PM EST) -- MIAMI — In a ruling addressing the sufficiency of discovery responses, a federal magistrate judge in Florida on Jan. 15 ruled that the Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) and its affiliates must decide if they are going to continue to assert that they were fraudulently billed for all services provided by a chiropractor and a number of clinics he owned as part of its fraud and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act lawsuit or if claims submitted by specific patients were for services that were medically unnecessary or provided by an unlicensed clinic employee....