After three years of investigation, a federal court in Louisiana has sentenced the former owner of Canon Healthcare, Shiva Akula, to serve 240 months in prison for his involvement in health care fraud. The court also ordered Akula to repay $42 million in fraudulent Medicare billing claims made between January 2013 and December 2019, which […]
A federal jury has convicted former Canon Healthcare owner Shiva Akula for False Claims Act violations totaling nearly $47 million. Canon Healthcare was a New Orleans-based hospice provider that also served the Baton Rouge and Covington, Louisiana, markets, as well as parts of Mississippi. Between 2013 and 2016, the company billed Medicare for $62 million […]
Shiva Akula, 65, the owner of New Orleans-based hospice facility Canon Healthcare has been indicted by a grand jury for 23 counts of health care fraud for allegedly billing Medicare for services that were not medically necessary or were not provided at all. The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Akula of instructing Canon staff […]
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