November 6, 2020

Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2020 NY Slip Op 51336(U))

Headnote

The relevant facts the court considered were that Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C. sought to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits and defendant, GEICO Ins. Co., argued that it had properly used the workers' compensation fee schedule applicable to chiropractors who render the same services as acupuncturists to reimburse plaintiff for the acupuncture services. The main issue decided was whether the defendant had properly used the fee schedule to reimburse the plaintiff for the acupuncture services. The holding was that the Civil Court denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granted defendant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The order was affirmed by the Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department.

Reported in New York Official Reports at Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2020 NY Slip Op 51336(U))

Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2020 NY Slip Op 51336(U)) [*1]

Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co.

2020 NY Slip Op 51336(U) [69 Misc 3d 140(A)]

Decided on November 6, 2020

Appellate Term, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.

Decided on November 6, 2020

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: : THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, P.J., DAVID ELLIOT, BERNICE D. SIEGAL, JJ
2018-2114 K C

Healing Art Acupuncture, P.C., as Assignee of Martinez, Mayvelin, Appellant,
against
GEICO Ins. Co., Respondent.

The Rybak Firm, PLLC (Damin J. Toell of counsel), for appellant. Law Office of Goldstein, Flecker & Hopkins (Lawrence J. Chanice of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Michael Gerstein, J.), entered August 9, 2018. The order denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with $25 costs.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff moved for summary judgment, and defendant cross-moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, arguing that it had properly used the workers’ compensation fee schedule applicable to chiropractors who render the same services as acupuncturists to reimburse plaintiff for the acupuncture services plaintiff had rendered. The Civil Court denied plaintiff’s motion and granted defendant’s cross motion.

For the reasons stated in Flushing Traditional Acupuncture, P.C., as Assignee of Thomas, Latecia v GEICO Ins. Co. (___ Misc 3d ___, 2020 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2018-2154 K C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

ALIOTTA, P.J., ELLIOT and SIEGAL, JJ., concur.

ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: November 6, 2020