On January 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics, announcing that FCA settlements and judgments exceeded $6.8 billion in the fiscal year (FY) ending September 30, 2025, marking “the highest in a single year in the history of the False Claims Act.”

What You Need to Know:

• Health Care Dominance: Health care and life sciences drove the vast majority of the total recovery (over $5.7 billion, or approximately 83 percent).
• Whistleblower Impact: Recoveries in health care and life sciences qui tam cases where the government declined to intervene exceeded those where it participated, signaling a major shift in litigation dynamics.
• Aggressive Government Posture: Even though total government-initiated matters were down overall, with 401 new matters compared to 423 new matters in FY 2024, the number of health care-related matters grew substantially, with a record 183 new government matters, compared to 87 in FY 2024.^[1]

Record-Breaking Recoveries in the Health Care Sector

DOJ’s report illustrates the government’s continued focus on FCA enforcement in the health care and life sciences space. In fact, the percentage of FCA recoveries in the health care and life sciences sectors compared to total FCA recoveries in FY 2025 increased significantly from the percentage in FY 2024 (83 percent versus 60 percent).

DOJ also reported 1,698 new FCA matters overall in FY 2025, with 1,297 new qui tam matters, the highest...

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