‘The View’ star Sunny Hostin’s surgeon husband accused of insurance fraud in sweeping federal lawsuit
Husband of “View” Co-host Sunny Hostin is accused of insurance fraud in a sweeping federal lawsuit filed last month.
Orthopedic surgeon dr. Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin and his practice, Hostin Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, were named among more than 180 defendants in a major RICO case filed in New York on Dec. 17.
According to The Daily MailHostin and the other defendants allegedly received “kickbacks” to perform operations and falsely bill an insurance company that provides services to Uber, Lyft and other taxi companies.
“Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other health services, including arthroscopic surgeries,” the lawsuit alleges, The Daily Mail reports, adding that American Transit Insurance Company, which filed the lawsuit, was billed “in exchange for commissions and/or other fees that were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.”
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dr. Emmanuel Hostin, the husband of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, is accused of insurance fraud in a sweeping federal lawsuit filed in New York last month. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Bezos Awards for Courage and Civility)
In a press release announcing the $450 million lawsuit, American Transit he said“The federal lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York, alleges that the defendants attempted to take advantage of New York’s no-fault auto insurance laws, which require insurance companies to reimburse their insureds for necessary and documented medical care up to $50,000 for passenger or private passenger vehicles ($200,000 for taxis and for-hire vehicles in New York) for injuries resulting from no-fault accidents These significant potential no-fault recoveries can incentivize service providers with the bad intention of overdiagnosing, overtreating and overcharging in order to get the most money back for themselves.”
According to The Daily Mail , the lawsuit alleges that Hostin received an “investment” interest in Empire State Ambulatory Surgery Center while receiving a “steady stream” of patient referrals in return.
Two of Hostin’s patients named in the lawsuit were allegedly treated in January 2023 after a “low-impact” collision that was said to have caused only minimal damage, “no more than soft tissue injuries,” but both underwent arthroscopic surgery.
Hostin’s lawyer told the Daily Mail his client denies all the allegations and called the filing “a blanket, scattered, baseless lawsuit by an insurance carrier that is near bankruptcy.”
“Its intent is to intimidate and bully doctors into not collecting for the care of American Transit policyholders and their passengers,” attorney Daniel Thwaites told The Daily Mail. “The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to restrict and limit the health benefits of its policyholders and their passengers, and write off their respective liabilities.”
Sunny Hostin and her husband Emmanuel Hostin have been married since 1998. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Sunny Hostin talked about her husband’s work on “The View” last month while discussing the health insurance industry after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“Doctors also suffer because of big corporations, doctors who want to do good like my husband,” Hostin told her colleagues. “[He] he operates on someone without insurance and then has to sue the health insurance companies to get paid for the job he’s been trained to do his whole life.”
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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said on air recently that her husband “does surgery on someone without insurance and then has to sue the health insurance companies to get paid for that work.” (ABC/View)
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Hostin and her husband have been married since 1998 and have two children.
