Allstate accuses Chicago surgery center of running fraud scheme

Allstate is taking aim at a Chicago surgery center and a wide cast of clinics, owners and a billing company, accusing them of running a coordinated insurance fraud scheme.

In a civil racketeering suit filed May 5, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the insurer alleges that Rogers Park One Day Surgery Center sat at the center of a scheme to bill Allstate and its claimants for medically unnecessary – and, in some cases, unlawful – care tied to auto injury claims.

Five Allstate entities are named as plaintiffs, lining up against more than a dozen defendants. According to the filing, the cast includes Rogers Park itself, the surgery center’s current and former owners Narjisha Thowfeek and Mohamed Sirajudeen (also known as Mohamed Siraj), Peterson Surgery Center LLC (now doing business as Rogers Park Surgery Center), chiropractor Manish D. Pandya, several affiliated providers – 87th Street Rehab Clinic, Deen Health System, New Life Medical Center, Advanced Medical Center, Paulina Anesthesia and RPAV Management DME – and the outside billing company AMS Medical Billing Consultants…

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