Healthcare Fraud

Healthcare fraud is a top priority of the United States Department of Justice’s enforcement efforts under the False Claims Act. Over a recent four-year period, 80% of the $11.4 billion recovered by the Department of Justice under the False Claims Act was in healthcare fraud cases. Those cases involved fraud in the Medicare, Medicaid and other taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. The primary way the Department of Justice uncovered the fraud that led to these recoveries was from reports by whistleblowers. Over that same four year period, whistleblowers received more than $1.54 billion as their share of these recoveries.