Acupuncturist Dodges Prison for $120K Medicaid Fraud

0:00A Connecticut acupuncturist just dodged real prison time for ripping off Medicaid to the tune of over $120,000 in fake ore. Jacked up bills, Julian Kanau, a 43-year-old from Milford, got hit with a three-year sentence that's fully suspended plus five years of conditional discharge, after pleading no contest to health insurance fraud in Meredith Superior Court this week. Earlier this week, Judge Thomas V. O'Keefe Jr. laid down the law, stemming from Kano's submitting claims for services he never did, or billing codes for, pricier treatments than what patients actually got. The scam hit hard on taxpayers funding Medicaid, and now Kanau's ban from acting as a provider for the program, or doing any billable services under, it, with mandatory exclusions from federal health programs too. Inspectors busted him back on June 30th, 2025, and he's already paid full restitution, closing this chapter, but sending a clear. Justice to fraudsters in health care, local news, powered by AI.

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