12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 865a
Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Interrogatories — Medical provider is ordered to provide better responses to interrogatories regarding reasonableness of charges for CPT code at issue, insurance and government programs from whom provider received payments for that CPT code, and amounts provider accepted from each such source
NORTHEAST FLORIDA NEUROLOGY CLINICS, INC., (as assignee of Janet Coraggio), Plaintiff, v. PROGRESSIVE AUTO PRO INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. County Court, 4th Judicial Circuit in and for Duval County, Small Claims Court. Case No. 16-2003-SC-006971, Division E. June 22, 2005. John A. Moran, Judge. Counsel: David G. Candelaria, Farah, Farah & Abbott, P.A., Jacksonville, for Plaintiff. Glenn S. Banner, James C. Rinaman, III & Associates, P.A., Jacksonville, for Defendant.
ORDER
THIS CAUSE, having come before the Court on April 4, 2005, on Defendant’s Motion to Compel Better Responses to Defendant’s Second Interrogatories, and the Court having heard arguments of counsel, reviewed the pleadings and motions and being otherwise advised in the premises, it is,
ORDERED and ADJUDGED as follows:
1. That Defendant’s Motion to Compel Better Responses to Defendant’s Second Interrogatories is hereby GRANTED.
2. That Interrogatories number 10 and number 11, are relevant to the issue of whether the Plaintiff’s charge for CPT code 99214 is reasonable.
2. The Plaintiff must provide a better response to Defendant’s Interrogatory number 10:
“List all group insurance, managed care programs, government programs, PPO programs, HMO programs, that the Plaintiff participates in wherein they received payment for CPT code(s) 99214, from January 31, 2003, through June 2, 2003.”
3. The Plaintiff must provide a better response to Defendant’s Interrogatory number 11:
“For all sources provided in response to Interrogatory number 10, please state the amount/and or range of amounts that the Plaintiff accepted for payment from each source for CPT code(s) 99214,from January 31, 2003, through June 2, 2003.”
4. The Plaintiff shall have twenty (20) days from the date of this hearing to produce said discovery.
5. If the Plaintiff prevails in this action, counsel for Plaintiff is not entitled to attorney’s fees or costs associated with this hearing.
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