Chiropractor charged with insurance fraud

Published: 2009-06-17 17:25:03
Author: Martin C. Daks | NJBIZ | May 18, 2009

State Attorney General Anne Milgram has a bone to pick with a Clifton chiropractor who allegedly billed insurance companies for more than $230,000 for tests he did not personally perform.

An Essex County grand jury indicted Sean Nisivoccia, 38, with attempted theft by deception, theft by deception and health care claims fraud, according to last week’s statement from the attorney general’s office.

In August 2008, the New Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners suspended Nisivoccia’s chiropractic license for five years, following his guilty plea to a criminal charge in Massachusetts and civil fraud litigation against Nisivoccia involving insurance carriers.

From April 2000 to June 2004, Nisivoccia allegedly created the impression that he performed studies and testing on his patients “when, in fact, he did not personally perform such tests, nor was he qualified to perform them,” according to the statement.

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