A Santa Clara County expert in fraud prevention was indicted for allegedly submitting more than 150 fraudulent healthcare claims, the District Attorney’s Office said Friday.
San Jose resident Faranak Firozan, 47, allegedly submitted over $100,000 in fraudulent claims against her tech company’s health plan.
Firozan was a senior manager of privacy and security at NVIDIA and regularly spoke as an expert on fraud prevention, prosecutor said. She is accused of submitting 167 fraudulent claims between November 2020 and January 2024 to NVIDIA’s self-insured health plan, which is administered by Cigna…