Federal Jury finds Memphis Physician Guilty of Adulterated and Misbranded Medical Devices and Health Care Fraud

Federal Jury finds Memphis Physician Guilty of Adulterated and Misbranded Medical Devices and Health Care Fraud

Memphis, TN - After a three-and-a-half-week trial and five days of deliberations, a federal jury found Memphis physician Sanjeev Kumar guilty of eighteen counts of adulteration of medical devices, sixteen counts of misbranding medical devices, and six counts of health care fraud. From 2019 to 2024, Kumar submitted and caused his employees to submit fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid for hysteroscopy with biopsy procedures that were not medically necessary and conducted with adulterated devices. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, of the Western District of Tennessee, announced the verdict today.

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