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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FOURTH DISTRICT

              UNITED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY,
                            Appellant,

                                      v.

   ISO-DIAGNOSTICS TESTING, INC. a/a/o GERARDO GONZALEZ,
                         Appellee.

                             No. 4D2022-2475

                            [January 31, 2024]

   Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit,
Broward County; Kathleen McHugh, Judge; L.T. Case No. COCE21-29607.

  Lissette Gonzalez and Francesca M. Stein of Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A.,
Miami, for appellant.

   Mac S. Phillips of Phillips | Tadros, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

    Appellant, United Automobile Insurance Company, appeals a judgment
in favor of a medical provider, ISO-Diagnostics Testing, Inc. (“ISO”), for PIP
benefits. The trial court ruled in ISO’s favor on its claim that, pursuant to
the policy, United owed additional PIP payments because United had
improperly paid ISO based on the 2017 Medicare Schedule of Payments,
rather than the higher 2018 schedule. We have recently decided this exact
issue involving a United PIP policy with the similar relevant policy
language against the same provider in United Automobile Insurance Co. vs.
ISO-Diagnostics Testing, Inc., a/a/o Suryma Pineiro Morales, No. 4D2022-
1735, --- So. 3d ---, 2024 WL 103664 (Fla. 4th DCA Jan. 10, 2024). We
reversed the judgment for ISO and held that “under the plain meaning of
the policy and the statute, whether pre- or post-amendment [of the
statute], the definition of a ‘year’ meant a service year governing the payout
at issue.” Id. at *2.

   Based upon our prior opinion, we also reverse the final judgment for
ISO in this case and remand for entry of judgment for United.

   Reversed.
WARNER, CIKLIN and KUNTZ, JJ., concur.

                          *        *      *

  Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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