The Department of Justice unveiled charges against 455 people, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in healthcare schemes that involved more than $6.5 billion in false claims and other patient harm.
The charges were part of a two-week coordinated fraud takedown headed by the DOJ Criminal Division’s Health Care Strike Force program, but reflects “a whole-of-government approach” that involved the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as international partners, law enforcement said in a press release issued Tuesday.
Of note, the enforcement included a record 295 charged defendants and more than $518 million of false claims related to Medicaid, a new record for the unit’s takedowns and a continuation of the Trump administration’s focus on bad actors within the program.
“We are aggressively scaling our offensive against anyone using health care as a front to steal from the American people,” Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald, of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, said in the announcement. “As today’s cases and arrests show, there is no case too big, no scheme too complex, and no hiding place too remote for our relentless fraud-fighting team. Our message is simple: if you put profit over patients, you should expect to be put in prison.”
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