The surgeon husband of The View's Sunny Hostin was named in a major lawsuit accusing a number of doctors in his practice of insurance fraud.

Nearly 200 surgeons were named in the RICO suit, and Ed Hostin was among them.

The surgeons are accused of performing arthroscopic surgeries and billing an insurance company that covers Uber and Lyft drivers when their patients' injuries would likely have healed on their own without surgery.

The defendants allegedly got kickbacks from the company for doing so.

The accusations

"Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries," the suit accused.

The insurance firm American Transit was subsequently billed "in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions."

Hostin's lawyer, Daniel Thwaites, said his client "denies each and every allegation" and called the lawsuit a "blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier."

"American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers," he added.

"The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to limit and restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations," Thwaites said.

Ownership and kickbacks

The Hostins have been married for more than 20 years and have two children ages 22 and 18.

They live in a 10 bedroom home in Purchase, New York.

Ed Hostin is a part owner of Empire State ASC, one of the surgery practices the doctors named in the suit practiced in.

He owns between 1 and 2.5% of the practice. He is also alleged to have performed some of the surgeries himself.

The insurance company, American Transit, wants $450 million in damages in the suit.