New Jersey doctor sentenced to nine months in kickback scheme

Livingston, New Jersey — Dr. Yash Khanna of Livingston, New Jersey, has been sentenced to nine months in jail for taking kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals of his patients and failing to file tax returns on $1 million of income over a three-year period.

Khanna will also serve one month of house arrest, and three years of supervised release; he'll also pay a $30,000 fine and was ordered to forfeit $10,400, authorities said.

The 73-year-old Khanna had last year admitted to earning income of more than $381,000 in 2008, $400,000 in 2009 and $214,000 in 2010. 

According to officials Khana previously admitted receiving more than $10,000 in illegal kickbacks for referring Medicare and Medicaid patients to Orange Community MRI for diagnostic testing.

While operating his own medical facility - Family Medicine and Pediatrics, LLC in East Orange - from 2009 to 2011, Khanna also admitted to intentionally failing to file tax returns on over $1 million worth of income, Fishman said.

Information on the status of Orange Community workers involved in the kickback scheme was not immediately available.