Auto insurance provider GEICO has accused two New York physician groups and the physician who owned them of billing the insurer more than $2 million for auto-accident treatments the company says were medically unnecessary or, in many instances, never performed at all.
In a complaint, filed July 24, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, GEICO named Kings County Physicians Group and Kings Highway Physicians Group, both based in New York City, along with Ashraf Salem, MD, as the physician who purportedly owned and controlled both practices. The lawsuit also names unidentified “John Doe” defendants GEICO alleges directed the scheme from behind the scenes.
The case is built around New York’s no-fault insurance system, which requires auto insurers to cover up to $50,000 per person for necessary care after a crash — but only when that care is medically necessary, actually rendered and billed by a properly licensed, physician-controlled practice. GEICO alleges the two clinics ran patients through the same “pre-determined fraudulent protocols,” regardless of what their injuries actually required…