WASHINGTON — (WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a nationwide health care fraud crackdown that resulted in charges against 78 defendants in separate schemes that totaled more than $2.5 billion in alleged fraudulent billings, marking what Attorney General Merrick Garland called 'one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.'
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — -- The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a nationwide health care fraud crackdown that resulted in charges against 78 defendants in separate schemes that totaled more than $2.5 billion in alleged fraudulent billings, marking what Attorney General Merrick Garland called"one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.
As part of the coordinated law enforcement actions between the DOJ, FBI, DEA, HHS Inspector General and other agency partners, the operations also resulted in seizures of more than $10.3 million in assets that included bank accounts, cars, a boat and several homes. The cases unsealed over a two-week period this month included"one of the largest health care fraud schemes ever prosecuted" by the department, in which two top executives and a former executive of an internet platform were charged for submitting roughly $1.9 billion in fraudulent claims to Medicare, officials said Wednesday.
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