Consultant named in Lawsuit
The lawsuit was amended on July 8, 2005 to include Mark Sanna, DC, president of Breakthrough Coaching, Inc., as one of the defendants. The second amended complaint alleges:
“In or about 2003, ZT developed a relationship with Breakthrough and Sanna whereby Breakthrough and Sanna would scout for chiropractors to recruit for ZT’s diagnostic testing scheme. As part of this, ZT and Sanna entered into a kickback arrangement whereby ZT began paying Sanna to refer patients to ZT for testing. ZT paid Sanna a $100 fee for each patient one of his chiropractic recruits set up for whereby ZT began paying Sanna to refer patients to ZT for testing. ZT paid Sanna a $1OO fee for each patient one of his chiropractic recruits set up for diagnostic testing with ZT. The $1OO fee was paid to Sanna by ZT exclusively for the patient referral. By May of 2005, Sanna’s income from the ZT patient referrals reached $480,000 per year and was one of ZT’s largest operational expenses. The same or similar ‘per patient’ referral fee applied to other so-called ‘coaches’ employed by Breakthrough and generated substantial additional cash flow. ZT also paid Sanna a $50,000 per year fee for membership on the ZT ‘advisory board.’”
