DOJ, HHS announce $2.6 billion in fraud recoveries during FY 2017

On April 6, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced that in the fiscal year that ended in September 2017, the agencies recovered $2.6 billion in health care fraud cases. According to DOJ’s press release: Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General Jeff Sessions today released a fiscal year (FY) 2017 Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report showing that for every dollar the federal government spent on healthcare related fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years, the government recovered $4. Additionally, the report shows that the departments’ FY 2017 Takedown event was the single largest healthcare fraud enforcement operation in history. In FY 2017, the government’s healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered $2.6 billion in taxpayer dollars from individuals and entities attempting to defraud the federal government and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Some of these…

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