Clinic Owner Pleads Guilty in Insurance Case
The owner of a Fullerton physical therapy clinic and two others have pleaded guilty to charges they billed an insurance company for bogus therapy sessions.
Nahid Tarighi Sadriah, 49, the owner of NTS Physical Therapy clinic, will be sentenced on fraud charges later this month after admitting in Orange County Superior Court that her business billed the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. for 63 therapy sessions that never occurred, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Kenneth Chinn.
Sadriah faces a maximum of five years in prison.
A former clinic employee, Leyla Afzalnia, 35, already has been sentenced to a 60-day jail term.
Western State University law student Mohsen Nateghi, also 35, was sentenced to 180 days for his role in the fraud, Chinn said.
The trio was arrested after an 18-month investigation by the Orange County district attorney’s office and the state Department of Insurance.
Nateghi, then an employee of the law offices of Kenneth Miller, referred undercover investigators to the clinic, where employees then allowed them to sign in for treatments that were never given.
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