Volume 12

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 145a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Presuit discovery — Where medical provider submitted incomplete, unsigned, unattested, and improperly filled out HCFA 1500 claim form for range of motion and muscle strength testing, insurer has made several attempts to obtain additional information regarding bills, and provider has refused to produce requested documents and information, insurer’s petition for presuit discovery is granted

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 143a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Presuit discovery — Where medical provider submitted incomplete, unsigned, unattested, and improperly filled out HCFA 1500 claim form for range of motion and muscle strength testing, insurer has made several attempts to obtain additional information regarding bills, and provider has refused to produce requested documents and information, insurer’s petition for presuit discovery is granted

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 140a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Presuit discovery — Where medical provider submitted incomplete, unsigned, unattested, and improperly filled out HCFA 1500 claim form for range of motion and muscle strength testing, insurer has made several attempts to obtain additional information regarding bills, and provider has refused to produce requested documents and information, insurer’s petition for presuit discovery is granted

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

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 363a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Independent medical examination reports and payment records — IME physician’s request for compensation for compliance with discovery request for all IME reports provided to any insurer within past two years is denied despite claim that, because physician mixes files of his patients and IME cases in alphabetical filing system, it would be unduly burdensome to pull all files to determine if it is file of regular patient of IME referral and then copy and redact each applicable record — Physician is ordered to provide IME reports and payment records at reimbursement of $1 per page copied and $1 per year researched — Plaintiff is ordered to keep records confidential and redact any records used at trial

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 398b

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Peer review reports and record of payments — Peer review physician is ordered to provide copies of redacted medical records review reports prepared at request of any scheduling or insurance company within past two years and list of payments for reports — Physician is entitled to reasonable copy and postage charges, but not to compensation for producing and copying documents

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 174b

Insurance — Discovery — Defendant’s objection to interrogatory requesting names of providers whose charges were compared with plaintiff provider’s charges in order to determine that the amounts charged by plaintiff were not usual, reasonable and/or customary — Inability to provide response due to manner in which database is compiled

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 230c

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Chiropractor is compelled to produce redacted medical records

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 577a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Interrogatories — Medical provider is ordered to provide better answers to interrogatories and identify any persons or entities possessing ownership interest in provider and all persons employed at facility where insured received treatment during one month — Motion to compel better response to request to produce lists of literature received by medical provider, documentation regarding persons who provided services to insured, medical director contract, and other documents is granted in part with limitations as to time period and facility at issue and provisions for making some documents available for inspection if documentation is too voluminous

12 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 958a

Insurance — Personal injury protection — Discovery — Documents — Insurer is ordered to produce all reimbursement amounts allowed to health care providers within medical provider’s zip code for CPT code at issue — Medical provider is ordered to produce, relative to CPT code at issue, fee schedules, billing receipts for all patients on dates of treatment of insured, records regarding patients or insurers who have disputed reasonableness of charges, audits, documents from any claim or lawsuit involving dispute over amounts billed, and documents showing licensure and registration