Physician to Pay $2.8 Million in Fraud

A Brentwood physician who operated a clinic in South-Central Los Angeles was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $2.8 million restitution Monday for bilking federal and state health agencies.

Keith O’Neill Perry, 46, who owned and operated KP Medical Center, was convicted last year of 39 felony counts, including mail, wire and bankruptcy fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

According to evidence at his trial, Perry deliberately misdiagnosed about 300 Medicare and Medi-Cal patients as suffering from lymphedema, a rare vascular disease that requires patients to obtain expensive pumps, braces and other medical devices.