Slava Pride, Physical Therapy Clinic Fraud, Massachusetts 2021

State: Massachusetts
Category: White Collar Crime
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BOSTON – A West Roxbury man has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to defraud an insurance provider for physical therapy services that were not provided to patients.

Slava Pride, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud on February 2021 in federal court in Boston.

Pride was a physical therapy assistant at Brighton Physical Therapy (BPT), a Brighton-based physical therapy clinic owned by Gyulnara Bayryshova.

Pride and his co-defendants allegedly conspired to cause an insurance company to reimburse them for physical therapy services that were not actually provided and/or were not medically necessary and, in some cases, were provided by individuals not licensed to provide the services.

According to the charging documents, from October 2018 through June 2020, Pride and his co-defendants falsely billed for services purportedly rendered to patients injured in automobile accidents when the services were not actually provided.

Pride is the second defendant to plead guilty in the case. On March 17, 2022, Anna Barenboym pleaded guilty to her role in the conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 4, 2023.

The charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

Pride is scheduled to be sentenced on March 23, 2023.

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