The Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced on February 28, 2025 that Sanjeev Kumar, 44, was arrested and charged with enticing and inducing four victims to travel interstate to engage in illegal sexual activity, adulteration of medical devices, misbranding of medical devices, and healthcare fraud.
The indictment alleges that from at least in or about September 2019 and up to and including at least in or about June 2024, Kumar enticed and induced four victims to travel interstate to his medical offices in Memphis, Tennessee, at least in part for the purpose of subjecting them to a sexual activity for which he could be charged with a criminal offense in violation of Tennessee Code Annotated Section 39-13-503.
According to the Indictment, between 2019 and 2024, Kumar sexually abused women by conducting medically unnecessary gynecologic procedures with medical devices that he held under insanitary conditions and reused on patients when they were required to be disposed of or properly reprocessed. Kumar did not inform patients that he was reusing “single use” or improperly reprocessed devices before he inserted the devices into their vaginas. He also billed Medicare and Medicaid as if the procedures were medically necessary and as if he had used a new or properly reprocessed device for each procedure.
This case is being investigated by the United States HHS-OIG, the United States Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).
The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations of criminal conduct, not evidence. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and convicted through due process of law. If convicted, the defendant’s sentence will be determined by the Court after review of the factors unique to the case, including the defendant’s prior criminal records (if any), the defendant’s role in the offense, and the characteristics of the violation.
FBI Seeking Patient Information In Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Investigation
The FBI’s Nashville Division-Memphis Resident Agency is seeking to identify potential victims who were patients of Poplar Avenue Clinic. The FBI believes Dr. Kumar primarily targeted patients between the timeframe of September 2019 to April 2024. Dr. Kumar is a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of Tennessee as a specialist in oncology and gynecology in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Kumar owns Poplar Avenue Clinic, which is a professional association that purported to provide women’s health care services in the state of Tennessee.
If you or a loved one were sexually assaulted by a physician or another health care provider in Tennessee or in another U.S. state, you should promptly find a Tennessee medical malpractice attorney, or a medical malpractice attorney in your state, who may investigate your sexual assault malpractice claim for you and represent you or your loved one in a sexual abuse malpractice case, if appropriate.
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