The husband of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin has been charged with insurance fraud in a major federal lawsuit filed last month.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Hostin and his practice, Hostin Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, were named as one of more than 180 defendants in a major RICO lawsuit filed in New York on December 17th. It was done.
According to daily mailHostin and the other defendants allegedly received “kickbacks” for performing surgeries and making fraudulent claims to insurance companies that insure Uber, Lyft and other taxi companies.
According to the Daily Mail, the lawsuit alleges that “Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical services, including arthroscopic surgery, and other medical services,” and that the American Transit Insurance Company, which filed the lawsuit, “offered kickbacks and other “The claim was made in exchange for compensation,” he added. They were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions. ”
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Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, husband of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, was charged with insurance fraud in a major federal lawsuit filed in New York last month. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Bezos Courage and Civility Awards)
In a press release announcing the $450 million lawsuit, American Transit said“A federal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York alleges that the defendants sought to take advantage of New York's no-fault auto insurance law, which requires insurance companies to up to $50,000 for private or private passenger vehicles (for taxis and rental cars in New York City) for injuries sustained in an accident, whether or not at fault. 200,000 if These substantial no-fault recovery possibilities allow unscrupulous medical providers to over-diagnose, over-treat, and over-treat in order to recover the most money for themselves. may encourage claims.”
The lawsuit alleges that Hostin was given an “investment” interest in the Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center and received a “steady stream” of patients in return, according to the Daily Mail.
Two of Hostin's patients named in the lawsuit were allegedly involved in “minor” crashes in January 2023 and were treated, with minimal injuries “limited to soft tissue damage.” However, both underwent arthroscopic surgery.
Hostin's lawyer told the Daily Mail that his client denies all the allegations, calling the suit “an all-out, sporadic and pointless lawsuit by an insurance company on the verge of bankruptcy.”
Lawyer Daniel Thwaites told the Daily Mail: “The aim is to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting the medical bills provided to US transit insurers and their passengers.” Ta. “The real story here is that insurance companies are abusing the legal system to limit medical benefits to insureds and their passengers and to write off appropriate obligations.”
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Sunny Hostin and her husband Emmanuel Hostin have been married since 1998. (Dia Dipaspil/Getty Images)
Just last month, Sunny Hostin talked about her husband's work on “The View” while discussing the health insurance industry after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“Doctors are also suffering because of big business. There are doctors, like my husband, who want to do good,” Hostin told colleagues. ”[He] They operate on people without insurance, and then they have to sue their health insurance company to get paid for the work they've been training for their whole lives. ”
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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin recently said that her husband “performed surgery on someone without insurance and had to sue the health insurance company to get the money for the surgery.” he said on the program. (ABC/The View)
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Hostin and her husband have been married since 1998 and have two children.
