The Department of Justice recovered over $3 billion from False Claims cases in the 2019 fiscal year, with $2.6 billion coming form healthcare fraud schemes.
In a recent announcement, the Justice Department reported that the billions of dollars stemming from healthcare fraud cases involved a wide range of stakeholders, including drug and medical device manufacturers, managed care providers, hospitals, pharmacies, hospice organizations, laboratories, and physicians. This is also the tenth consecutive year that the department’s civil healthcare fraud settlements and judgments exceeded $2 billion.
Source: DoJ Recovered $2.6B from Healthcare Fraud Cases in 2019 / RevCycle Intelligence