Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice announced that recent anti-fraud efforts have resulted in charges being filed against 455 defendants nationwide, including in Oklahoma, for health-care fraud and opioid-abuse schemes involving more than $6.5 billion in false claims “and significant patient harm, including death.”
The charges were filed as part of the agency’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. The defendants included 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals.
“This year’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown represents the greatest whole-of-government effort to combat health care fraud in our Nation’s history,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Under the decisive leadership of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and our law enforcement partners, this administration has ushered in a new era of enforcement that will safeguard taxpayer dollars.”
Among the actions taken by federal agencies, officials announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has suspended 1,079 providers and revoked billing privileges for 1,403 providers.
There have also been 48 Civil Monetary Payment settlements amounting to more than $73 million, more than 1,400 provider exclusions, and 25 actions taken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”) under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law seeking more than $10 billion in payments to the...
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