- Total recoveries under the False Claims Act since January 2009 to $ 17 billion.
- As in previous years, the largest recoveries related to health care fraud, which reached $2. 6 billion.
- In fiscal year 2013… $443 million in recoveries for state Medicaid programs
- The $2. 6 billion in health care fraud recoveries in fiscal year 2013 marks four straight years the department has recovered more than $2 billion in cases involving health care fraud.
- From January 2009 through the end of the 2013 fiscal year, the department used the False Claims Act to recover $12 .1 billion in federal health care dollars.
- Of the $2. 6 billion in federal health care fraud recoveries, $1.8 billion were from alleged false claims for drugs and medical devices under federally insured health programs that, in addition to Medicare and Medicaid, include TRICARE.
- (2014) Charges against 90 individuals, including 27 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $260 million in false billings.
- The Department of Justice’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged nearly 1,900 individuals involved in approximately $6 billion of fraud.
- $3.8 Billion—That is the approximate amount recovered by the federal government last year alone in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 (the “FCA” or the “Act”). This amount marks the second largest haul in history and the fourth consecutive fiscal year in which the government recovered more than $3 billion.
- Number of FCA New Matters, Including Qui Tam Actions
- Settlement or Judgments in Cases where the Government Declined Intervention as a Percentage of Total FCA Recoveries
- FCA cases by year in different areas
- Every $1 the U.S. government invests in combating Medicare and Medicaid fraud saves $1.55.
- Fraud (and the extra rules and inspections required to fight it) added as much as $98 billion, or roughly 10%, to annual Medicare and Medicaid spending—and up to $272 billion across the entire health system.
- Punishments have grown tougher: last year the owner of a mental-health clinic got 30 years for false billing.
