Justice Department announces hundreds of charges in multi-billion-dollar healthcare fraud crackdown

The Justice Department announced criminal charges against 455 individuals in a healthcare fraud crackdown involving over $6.5 billion in false claims. Key cases include a nurse practitioner billing Medicaid for unnecessary procedures, a mental health company exploiting the homeless, a hospice owner paying kickbacks, and a heart doctor accused of billing for unnecessary cardiac tests for athletes, some of which led to undiagnosed fatal conditions.