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Lancaster doctor convicted in medicare kickback scheme

by City News Service • August 23, 2018

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles federal jury Thursday convicted a Lancaster doctor of conspiracy for his role in a Medicare kickback conspiracy involving a home health agency.

Kanagasabai Kanakeswaran, 65, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to pay and/or receive kickbacks for Medicare referrals and four counts of receiving kickbacks for Medicare referrals after a six-day trial.

He faces up to 25 years in federal prison at sentencing on Jan. 7, 2019, in downtown Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to evidence presented at trial, from 2008 to 2016, Kanakeswaran and others engaged in a conspiracy to refer Medicare patients to Star Home Health Resources, a home health agency located in La Verne, in exchange for illegal kickback payments.

Kanakeswaran received cash kickback payments, as well as kickback payments by check through a company Kanakeswaran owned called Digital Perfection Corporation, evidence showed.

As a result of the conspiracy, the owners and operators of Star submitted claims to Medicare based on the Medicare beneficiaries that Kanakeswaran referred to Star, and Medicare paid about $4.1 million based on those claims, evidence showed.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster

14 comments for "Lancaster doctor convicted in medicare kickback scheme"

  1. Tina says

    October 3, 2018 at 11:54 am

    What about the medical groups up here that are doing the same thing??

    • Ann says

      October 25, 2018 at 2:23 pm

      Due to Obamacare, all if these Drs. are getting kickbacks, especially from the pharmaceutical companies. They all have to overbill to even get paid, and due to some “good old boy” standard up here, some get paid right away, while others have to wait.

      • Tim Scott says

        October 25, 2018 at 8:15 pm

        Other than the basic “GOP hates da Obamacare!” principle, can you make any sensible connection that shows Obamacare increased medical fraud?

        Yeah, I figure not.

        • LCD says

          October 26, 2018 at 7:44 am

          Obamacare: The biggest insurance scam in history, and I’m a Democrat.

          • William says

            October 26, 2018 at 8:40 pm

            Obamacare is more more popular now than ever and the republicans want to take it away while lying about it.

  2. Sumotoad says

    October 2, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    I have been after Kumar since 2002. He is dirty, dirty, dirty. He was the main over-prescriber of narcotics to Medi- Cal patients who then sold the drugs on the street. Finally! Hope he gets life.

  3. Kelly says

    August 30, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    Sad thing is he no one wants to step up for him. What he did was wrong, but he wasn’t a bad person.

  4. Dan says

    August 29, 2018 at 9:19 am

    Hope they get Dr. Kane Kumar next !!!! aka Dr. feel Good !!!

    • Alexis says

      August 29, 2018 at 3:54 pm

      They arrested Dr. Kumar in 2016 for receiving kickbacks. He is fighting the charges.

  5. Rego says

    August 26, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    If you look closely you can almost get Snake out of his last name

  6. Thanks Obama care says

    August 25, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    After he does his time ship his [removed] back to where he came from.

  7. Barbara says

    August 24, 2018 at 2:10 pm

    Wow! I hope they’re making him pay that money back. He needs to pay restitution as well as jail time!

  8. David G says

    August 23, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    The sad reality is if one needs to go see a Dr most likely they are going to end up with a grub like this…and this grub is just demonstrating a culture of corruption…he is not alone…this is how business is done. I believe this grubby Ganges river rat should be given a pork chop necklace and then thrown in a shark tank….

    • Tina says

      September 23, 2018 at 12:28 pm

      I thank your all right that piece of **** killed my dad I hope he goes away for a very long time . To treat someone with such disrespect exspecially a man who served his country and had damn good insurance…. Dr Kumar is no doctor he should have his license taken….

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