In recent days, constitutional and federal prosecutors have announced a flurry of arrests and charges for more than 320 defendants who reportedly participated in various health care schemes worth a collective $ 14.6 billion in intended losses.
All in all, the cases represent the largest mass -under -creating of health care fraud in the history of the Ministry of Justice, according to federal officials, who published the cases on Monday As part of the National Health Care Fraud Takedown 2025.
“This record capacity of health care fraud Takedown provides justice to criminal actors who hunt our most vulnerable citizens and stems of hard-working American taxpayers,” Pamela Bondi said In a statement. “Make no mistake – this administration will not tolerate criminals who hold their pockets with taxpayers dollars, while endangering the health and safety of our communities.”
The Takedown included several studies, some years date.
One attempt, called Operation Gold Rush, started in 2023 and has since yielded charges in New York, Illinois, California, Florida and New Jersey against 19 defendants, accused of working on submitting $ 10.6 billion in fraudulent health care claims more than a MREATARE for Medicor for Medicish for Medical for Medicity for Medicor for Medicish for Medical for Medicity for Medical for Medicity for Medical for Medical for Medical Cathes Cathes and Die Middelare Middelare for Medicity for Medicity and Million Middeleten Middelare For Medicity More than A Million of Medicish Cathes. to use.
The alleged regulation, carried out by defendants with organized crime in Russia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, resulted in a stream of hundreds of thousands of complaints about the healthcare health care and more than 7,000 doctors whose identities were used without their knowledge.
Medicare was eventually struck by more than 1 billion catheters of fraudulent claims.
‘I don’t even know if [the United States] Has the possibility to produce 1 billion catheters in such a short time, ”Isaac Bleedsoe, director of strategic projects and initiatives at the office of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, who goes through the research with the Doj and FBI, told The Washington Post. “The absurdity, the brutality of these actors is really just amazing.”
More than 99 percent of fraudulent payments never reached the perpetrators, federal officials said.
Another alleged scheme announced as part of the bust Involved in a plot of $ 650 million in which a Pakistan person who, together with at least 41 clinics, reportedly recruited patients from the Indian reserves of Arizona, some homeless, and used their identity to submit claims for treatment of substance abuse that was never given.
All in all, between activities, law enforcement grabbed more than $ 245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency and other assets, because prosecutors warned of a growing push by transnational criminal networks to exploit the American health care system.
“These criminals not only steal someone else’s money. They have stolen from you,” said Matthew Galeotti, who leads the criminal division of the Ministry of Justice, on Monday to reporters. “Every fraudulent claim, every fake invoicing, every recovery schedule represents money that is taken directly from the pockets of American taxpayers that finance these essential programs through their hard work and sacrifice.”
In the end, the Takedown 324 defendants in 50 federal districts and 12 general offices of the state lawyers included.
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