Thursday, October 1, 2026
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that his administration banned a first round of 18 doctors and other health service providers, including a doctor from Rockville Centre, from billing New York’s no-fault auto insurance system as part of an extensive and ongoing Department of Financial Services (DFS) investigation.
This action is part of the Cuomo Administration’s statewide initiative to stop fraudulent health service providers and medical mills that abuse the no-fault insurance system, and cost New Yorkers hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary insurance costs.
Among those banned from the service is Chantal Hilaire, M.D, a Rockville Centre doctor.
An ongoing DFS investigation has uncovered evidence of doctors and other health service providers giving unnecessary treatment to car accident victims, billing insurers for unnecessary treatment or treatment that was never provided, and “renting” their taxpayer ID number to fraudulent medical practices run illegally by laypersons who submit fake bills to insurance companies. Without the doctors and other providers, these schemes cannot work.
“Defrauding the state’s no-fault auto insurance system is illegal and drives up costs for honest drivers across the state, and my administration simply will not allow such actions to go unpunished,” Cuomo said. “Doctors and medical service providers who conspire to abuse the system should know that New York State is watching and will not hesitate to take appropriate actions to shutdown fraud when it occurs.”
Last year, Cuomo announced a statewide initiative to combat no-fault insurance fraud. As part of that initiative, DFS issued regulations enabling it to ban health service providers who engage in illegal or dishonest practices or fail to respond to the department’s inquiries from billing the no-fault system. Today’s action is the first ban under that regulation. DFS is collaborating with law enforcement officials on these and other cases.
