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At SLS, we focus on news of workers’ compensation law in the great state of
Texas, but this news from California (of all places) is too good to pass up. A
big fish has gotten his just desserts.
Peyman Heidary, a chiropractor who reportedly referred to himself as “the
Godfather” and “Number One,” was sentenced this month to 54 years, 8 months in
state prison, and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines, for his role
in overseeing a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme in California.
Heidary reportedly owned and oversaw a network of sham medical clinics to
generate fraudulent billings to workers’ compensation insurance carriers. A
non-attorney, he also reportedly controlled the day-to-day operations of sham
law firms. His sham law firms would interview injured workers and direct them
to one of his sham clinics where they would be subjected to a barrage of
treatments, regardless of need, including massage, chiropractic manipulation,
acupuncture, and psychiatric evaluation. After the clinics wrung out the
maximum number of visits, they would discharge the patients regardless of their
medical status.
A jury convicted Heidary of 68 counts of insurance fraud, conspiracy, and money
laundering. During the sentencing hearing on April 12, 2024, Judge Charles
Koosed noted that Heidary possessed deep knowledge of the workers’ compensation
system, stating “[Heidary] took advantage of that knowledge based on
greed.”
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