The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics on January 16, 2026. The DOJ announced a record level of recoveries from FCA resolutions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 (ending Sept. 30, 2025), which exceeded $6.8 billion. These statistics reflect the highest single-year dollar amount recovery on-record since the DOJ began reporting such statistics in 1987.
The record-setting $6.8 billion recovered in FY 2025 cleared the all-time high of $6.1 billion in recoveries set in FY 2014 and is more than double the dollar amounts the DOJ has recovered in recent years. Recoveries in FY 2021 reached $5.7 billion but dipped in FY 2022 ($2.2 billion) and saw only a modest increase in FY 2023 ($2.8 billion) and FY 2024 ($3.1 billion).
The DOJ also set a record with the recovery of more than $5.7 billion from the healthcare industry, comprising more than 83% of the total for FY 2025. Healthcare regularly represents the majority of FCA recoveries, accounting for more than 70% ($60 billion) of the $85 billion the DOJ has recovered under the FCA since 1987. This year’s figures exceed the average and show markedly more concentration of healthcare recoveries than the prior two years (68% in FY 2023 and 58% in FY 2024). Over the last decade, with the exception of 2021, no year saw a greater concentration of FCA healthcare enforcement (as measured against the whole of FCA enforcement) than 2025.
Notably, two large trial verdicts related to the...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics on January 16, 2026. The DOJ announced a record level of recoveries from FCA resolutions in Fiscal...