Dr. Sanjeev Kumar is a gynecologist who operates Poplar Avenue Clinic, a women’s health clinic in Memphis. On February 27, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee announced a criminal indictment against Kumar, alleging that between September 12, 2019 and April 16, 2024, he engaged in a series of crimes, frauds, and other acts, including:
- Conducting unnecessary medical procedures, namely hysteroscopy procedures;
- Reusing single-use hysteroscope without properly cleaning, disinfecting, and/or sterilizing the cannulas between use, all in order to increase his profits; and
- Reusing hysteroscopes and other medical devices that were cleared for reuse under strict reprocessing procedures, but he failed to clean, sanitize, and/or sterilize the hysteroscope devices between uses and maintained the devices under insanitary conditions).
Dr. Kumar treated at least an estimated 19,000 women between 2019 and when he was indicted in 2025.
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