In what is being billed as the largest single takedown of HHS fraud, today the DOJ announced indictments for a massive $14.6 billion Medicaid/Medicare fraud program operated out of the U.S and several foreign countries.
DOJ PRESS RELEASE – The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health care fraud schemes involving over $14.6 billion in intended loss. The Takedown involved federal and state law enforcement agencies across the country and represents an unprecedented effort to combat health care fraud schemes that exploit patients and taxpayers.
Demonstrating the significant return on investment that results from health care fraud enforcement efforts, the government seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets as part of the coordinated enforcement efforts.
As part of the whole-of-government approach to combating health care fraud announced today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also announced that it successfully prevented over $4 billion from being paid in response to false and fraudulent claims and that it suspended or revoked the billing privileges of 205 providers in the months leading up to the Takedown. Civil charges against 20 defendants for $14.2 million in alleged fraud, as well as civil settlements with 106 defendants totaling $34.3 million, were also announced as part of the Takedown. (continue reading)
Awesome!
Awesome as it proves gov’t has no business being involved in healthcare.
All healthcare should be fee based, market competition, user review driven, and insurance companies competing nationally to sell catastrophic health insurance policies. Money spent on healthcare and catastrophic insurance would be 100% tax deductible to incentivize full participation to lower the cost for everyone. Aggressive gov’t policies educating the populace about eating healthy and exercising and penalizing people that don’t with higher premiums.
Individuals would have the option of upgrading to Cadillac policies if they choose. Charitable organizations would set up to treat the poor and indigent with healthcare workers able to deduct their volunteer time against their income taxes.
Mrs. Sunshine – IMHO, Spot on!!! As a former health care professional (hospital administrator) from large metropolitan teaching institutions, I couldn’t agree more. Everyone would win – except the fraudsters.
Sounds kinda like what we use to have….
It does, Jo.
When I was a kid, Dr. Lincoln, was my families doctor.
Whether it be broken bones, sniffles, rashes, coughs/colds, etc, he was the man.
Paid the bill… done
The only time anyone went to the hospital (that I recall) was to have a jaw reset and wired shut, after a bed fall.
They had their jaw reset and wired shut after a BED fall??? What the heck were they doing???
Sounds like they were practicing on-side kick scenarios just before beddy-bye, without a helmet.
Stranger things have happened. Just ask Lou”The Toe” Grozza.
Reenacting ‘Shanghai Noon’? And probably AFTER Mom told them to “knock it off.”
I believe there’s a children’s song about this involving monkeys.
and weasels…?
Ouch. House calls.
🎯 !! Yes, that’s similar to the way it used to be. However, given the heavy reliance of our current medical system on expensive imaging, robotic, and other equipment, and on lab-based diagnostic equipment and the trained personnel to properly run it all…the transition from now to the way things used to be might be a long and painful process.
Many of the expensive tests you mention are not needed nor are they necessary… Your Dr. sends you for the test, knowing you will have to book a “folllow-up” visit to the Dr. to hear the results of the test… Follow-up visits = $$$ in the doc’s pocket…
I’m going to somewhat disagree here. Twice medical tests for one thing exposed an entirely different and more serious problem that the original that caused the testing to begin with. The last time was a bone cancer diagnosis that would have been unknown until I broke a bone due to cancer damage. We caught it early and it is not only under control but receding. All due a scan for potential abdominal bleeding.
Good points. Government has no business in a lot of areas, especially health care and education.
Exactly! Why do people keep asking for more government, when what we get from that is more restrictions on our lives/freedom, bigger bureaucracies, more taxpayer money to pay for it all?
What may or may not have started decades ago as someone’s ‘do-gooder’ intentions has metastasized into ingrained acceptance of insufferable intrusion in our lives and cultural perspectives.
To the extent that we shape our individual lives within in the limitations of ‘conventional wisdom,’ is the measure of creativity and vitality lost to us as a nation/culture/civilization.
In general, good ideas. However, I have to tell you that there is no such thing as a univrrsal “healthy diet.” Different people can have extremely different dietary needs. What has kept me alive and healthy fot 81 years would probably be a disaster for a great many people.
The basics are universal. Special needs would be addressed by a well trained GP.
We move away from a pharma model to a healthy lifestyle model. All diet, exercise and homeopathic remedies tried, pharma is last desperate resort. If a person is on pharma, the vast majority of the time (not all the time) that person is failing in making the right choices or their doctor is failing.
This calendar year, there will be an estimated 317,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed. Let us know how these newly-diagnosed people will have failed to make the right choices.
Happy to. Provide their historical food and beverage choices. Provide history of drug, legal or illegal, use. Provide their exercise history. I will find it in those records what choices led to the diagnosis.
For tiny minority of them genetically guaranteed to get breast cancer, they should be treated as best as possible by any means available.
That sounds extremely invasive and a violation of our rights. I do NOT want some pencil neck requiring knowledge of my daily habits, what I eat and etc. before I can get medical care.
I am a breast cancer survivor and let me tell you, receiving that diagnosis was DEVASTATING and the treatments invasive… having someone question my habits would have been an added burden and more invasion. Lying with your breasts exposed on a radiation treatment table with people wandering in and out is enough trauma. Having poison pumped into your blood and consequent reactions…. and losing ones hair. ENOUGH to deal with let alone some dweeb wanting to know what I eat, what I drink… whether I run or walk or sit too much. Not to mention having to get an authorization for 35 daily radiation treatments, authorization for every chemo treatment…. good grief it is exhausting to have cancer!
So, NO THANK YOU to your particular ideal of “medical care”.
Don’t get upset with me. The idea came from “Fionnagh”…
“Let us know how these newly-diagnosed people will have failed to make the right choices.”
What are the ‘right choices’?
Also enquire as to how many of these folks got the safe-and-effective shot(s)?
I guess you missed this part of her response: “… pharma is last desperate resort.”
⬆️Indubitably!!
True to a point. Today’s food pyramid, however, is unhealthy for EVERYONE. Who ever thought that Fruit Loops is healthier than eggs for breakfast? They aren’t healthier than anything.
So you want some government official to police what goes on people’s plates at dinner? 1984 much?
If they do, I’ll just go eat in the bedroom.
[sarcasm/off]
I don’t care what goes on your plate. However, once per year maybe we should see how you’re doing with your choices?
As an aside, years ago Bloomberg in NY wanted a soda tax and (disingenuously?) said it was necessary to offset the load that diabetes would play on future NYC healthcare costs. Have to admit, I generally agreed with the concept. If they wouldn’t ‘ break the chain ‘ then they needed to control costs.
Not police, but make information available to people so they can make informed choices.
For example, now doctors are basically drug pushers. The health market is pretty much laser focused on drugs and surgery If they don’t have a drug to “fix” you and surgery won’t do the trick, “health insurance” is almost meaningless. You’re on your on and for people who are already sick, and who have a complicated illness, this can be challenging.
What doctors don’t do is provide knowledge and support for people who could benefit from behavioral changes and healing modalities other than pharmaceutical drugs and surgery. If people don’t educate themselves about diet and exercise, for example, they miss out on what could be “free” cures.
Many “treatments” other than drugs could help many people. An example is acupuncture/accupressure, very little of which is covered on most policies and it is difficult for people to educate themselves. Another example is nutritional counseling, which supports people with specific health issues and seniors, but Medicare doesn’t pay for it unless someone already has a serious illness (which means drugs are once again involved). Another example is physical therapy for people with complex issues, but now those kinds of appointments are limited in most policies.
The bottom line is we need to rethink how to provide medical care and one of the key aspects is to provide knowledge and support for non-drug related interventions. Doctors should be aware of all treatment possibilities and impart that knowledge to patients.
The medical establishment often claims that drugs are needed because most people won’t do the work to change behavior and they want quick fixes. But the real problem is people aren’t aware. They are not given the information they need to make a true choice. Although covid has woken up a lot of people and hopefully Secretary Kennedy will do even more.
Not sure I’m on board with the aggressive gov’t policies and penalties part, but most everything else is the way it was when I growing up. Everyone should still have the freedom to make choices for themselves, along with the chance to experience the consequences of those choices, whether they be good or bad.
And health insurers might take note of the common-sense policies of some homeowner insurance carriers… if you insist on building on an earthquake fault that runs through the middle of a wildfire-prone flood zone, you’d better be self-insured.
Agree !!!
Seize EVERYTHING they own, sell it – and reimburse our STOLEN tax dollars.
Next:
Go after & recover our billion$$$ of tax-dollars Obama & Biden gave to church “charities” for criminal illegal-aliens.
The global terror threat of nuclear annihilation has been officially eliminated* {see footnote B2}…
And these bastards {Fed dot Guv} have the unmitigated gall to “ask” US {We The People} for another $1T for the DOD “budget”…
Any American citizen who voluntarily pays one red Lincoln cent of their own Monies to THIS Federal Government…
Is a Traitor to The United States Of America.
A Government that cannot “afford” to make The United States Of America Lincoln Penny out of copper…
Does not deserve ONE of them !!!
Cash makes no enemies.
Personality does not factor in mathematics.
And God is no respecter of persons.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
The medical community treats human beings like machines with parts.
In their medical training they are taught that we are not a whole with mind, body and soul, but parts. Now a days, you don’t go to a doctor, you go to a specialist who only treats one part of the machine. In contrast, some people chose to go to a Naturopathic M.D. who looks at the whole person, not as a machine with lots of parts.
Makes me appreciate my 100 year old pediatrician with the skeleton haNging in his office.
Contradictions in your post. You state that government has no business being involved in healthcare, yet you state there should be aggressive government policies … penalizing people…
Would not those “aggressive” policies be enacted and enforced by the very government yod don’t want involved?
What if mandatory vaccines come back into vogue? Will those who refuse be penalized, just as many were the first pandemic around?
As for those charitable organizations, kindly name a few, or even one. What charitable organization has a retinal surgeon who is board certified to treat macular edema? Or has a board certified urologist to treat prostate cancer? Or has an integrative radiologist to treat ileac compression?
None of these conditions is related to poor lifestyle choices and each requires a specialist, not some volunteer looking to get a break on income taxes. If what you proposed were to go into effect, a lot of “poor” people would be under-treated. In my former days of glory as a paralegal, that was called malpractice.
Medicare and medicaid are not Healthcare they are insurers. Tied to Social Security and Welfare. Which I’ve paid into for 50 years so not sure how you just take it away. Welfare is another matter all together. But taking help from the truly impoverished never really goes over to well.
many people confuse Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare is health insurance for those over 65 who have paid into the system for years
after that you still pay for medicare out of your social security payment – around $200/mo.
then for the 20% balance remaining of your hospital/doctor bills, you have to purchase supplemental health insurance from some company
like BCBS which costs another $200-400 or pay it out of pocket.Then if you want prescription insurance,
that costs upwards of another $100.00 per month. And, if you are still working,
you are still putting money in the government kitty for social security and medicare.
Medicaid is health insurance for those who qualify and do not pay anything
everything is paid for with tax payer dollars – low income? illegals? scammers
who don’t want to work? you name it
I understand there are a portion of lower income folks who are helped by medicaid.
However there is another portion who could be working and won’t. That’s why I’m fine with any reductions in medicaid in the BBB.
Get a job.
I agree and have said so regarding both Medicaid and Obamacare. They are unconstitutional and need to be dissolved, along with FEMA.
There is a LOT of unConstitutional stuff going on from our Government. I don’t see how DOEd, for instance, isn’t a direct violation of Amendment 10. Frankly, just about any 3-Letter or department/program that isn’t specified as a Federal function in the Constitution should be considered unConstitutional. And, for some reason, all these types of programs are super expensive and more out of control that the functions of the Federal govt. that are identified in the Constitution.
My wife is Thai. Healthcare is better in Thailand. I wasted two hours today; trapped between my insurance company and a Dr. It sucks, and it is the governments fault.
I’d also include a ban on corporate ownership of medical practices.
It is awesome.
This is just another example that tells me that lots of people (individuals and businesses) have their hands in the American people’s pockets.
I’ll wait and see who goes to jail.
Good!! Keep going. Our healthcare is being robbed by scams!!
Our healthcare is being robbed, from more than just scams. It’s been robbed by deliberate, bad healthcare. Doctors doing things for the love of money. And not for patients
We’ve reached the absurd point where spending on healthcare continues to rise even after average life expectancy has fallen.
Many of the doctors are foreign medical grads, that get MBBS instead of MD and rob a US citizen of a limited spot in a Residency program here. Many become Dr.s just to exploit our systems to become wealthy. They are entrepreneurs not humanitarians hoping to help heir fellow man anymore. Many from India, Pakistan, Africa.
Health care in the US is a scam. It is not focused on patient care, it’s focused on billing and what medicare is willing to pay. Focussing on billing is what allows the fraud.
If you look, it’s possible to find healthcare providers that are “wellness” based. Medicare will pay for SOME of the costs. We are lucky to have one near us. It’s focused on causative issues, not just treating symptoms (with drugs)
Trouble is they are opting out of Medicare and insurance plans…payment at each visit and then you file your own claims. So now I’m paying for health coverage out of my monthly Medicare yet have to deal with trying to get some of my expenses back…not a happy camper on this new trend.
Start by searching out practitioners with D.O. degrees, Doctors of Osteopathy – not M.D. degrees.
Yep!
Similar here in Canada.
A street drunk I have known for twenty years, is now in the last stages of alcoholism.
He has been taken by ambulance to the hospital two blocks from where he “ holes up” at least eight times.
He drinks and takes pills then when the pain gets too much has a passerby call him an ambulance.
His care alone will have been in the hundreds of thousands these last few years.
Yet an individual can sit in the emergency ward at the same hospital for eight hours or more.
It’s a clucking joke!
the same is true of private insurance. They view it as costing more than it’s worth to chase down a lot of fraud. They insure themselves, and then pass along the added cost to you.
The current healthcare industry *is* one giant 100 year-old ongoing scam initially funded by JD Rockefeller, Carnegie & initially based on a study and report about the state of medical education in America by Abraham Flexner in the very early 20th century.
There’s more to it though, so here’s the article.
https://hannenabintuherland.com/usa/john-rockefeller-how-he-took-control-over-modern-medicine/
I’m in my late 70s with some health conditions and to this day I’ve only had one Doctor recommend anything but prescription pharmaceuticals! I have Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration in one eye and dry in the other. My eye doctor and my retina specialist both recommended I take Areds2. All the other supplements I take were mostly recommended by my older brother, but I didn’t take his word for it I researched them myself!! My heart health is better for taking them. What GB has posted is known but is anyone in Congress or the medical community working on changing that system? I doubt Congress would or they might lose their Big Pharma donations!!! Here is a problem with a known solution but nothing get done such is the power of Big Pharma!!! Money talks bull💩walks!!!
Most are funded by BS Pharma.
Yeowza!
The next time one of those Paid Media Trolls on the Sunday Morning shows starts whining about health care “spending cuts”—this is where the intelligent reply should start.
<…whining about health care “spending cuts”…>
Only in the deranged mindset of lunatic Democrats…
Can an annual increase to Medicaid above the rate of inflation be called ‘a cut’ 🙂
“Paid Media Trolls” / “deranged …lunatic Democrats”
Zero daylight between them – they’re one and the same.
Great timing same day as One Big Beautiful Bill.
Billions in fraud and millions in restitution.
Where’s the money?
We never hear about any jail time.
UNSATISFACTORY!!!
“Demonstrating the significant return on investment that results from health care fraud enforcement efforts, the government seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets as part of the coordinated enforcement efforts.”
Jails are expensive. Much prefer restitution for non-violent criminals — what a waste to pay for guards to feed, house and sort these greedy people? If you take their money and luxuries it is a greater punishment
Because they’re repeat offenders, that’s why.
Embrace the power of “and.”
It should be BOTH.
Why not both? Take all their money and everything they’ve tried to shelter to family, throw them in prison, and make them work for their bread and water, and other costs.
Hopefully they are “following the money” as we all know a bunch of it goes right back to the crooked politicians and insurance companies.
They have charged 324 people so you will hear about it. It just happened you need to give them time. It still has to go through court.
It truly amazes me that you dont see the amount of investigation that goes into this, and the amount of time it takes to get it all going.
I wonder if this came about by the DOGE searches for waste fraud and abuse.
I do too and hope if DOGE was instrumental in identifying this fraud, I’d like for Elon and his crew to hear about it.
Start following accomplishments like this in a different manner.
See what taking drug money and drugs out of the equation does towards improving things.
This past week there was news out that the murder rate is the lowest in decades. I firmly
believe that things going on in the background the last few months is making that possible.
Read about gang members from overseas being taken out of the equation. What was the
before/after picture for gunfire , drug sales in say, Aurora Colorado the past few months?
It probably was relatively quiet before the gangs took over the apartments, got out of control,
and now it’s probably much quieter.
USAID money dries up. Part of it was to ship gangsters over here. Part of it was to ship
drugs over here. The coast guard has made some major impoudments of drugs. Forty million
worth of fentanyl, 10s of millions worth of ingredients for opoids. Think of how much drug
sales and manufacturing intervention will happen with the arrests listed today.
Read Katherine Austin Fitts “Aristocracy and the stock profits of Dylan Reade”. It goes into
great detail about why so many areas became unsafe over the decades. It’s all tied to
dual books accounting where the big boys used drug sale to balance the books over what
they had already stolen.
Everyone keeps bitching about Epstein. Start paying attention to drug confiscations,
gang member deportations, lower crime rates in cities. Start paying major attention to
when Governors of Mexican border states start going off the deep end about Trump’s
policies. Because that’s when you will know that the Cartel cash is drying up, and their
handlers are breathing down their necks about it.
(Hint) What I said about the governors will be easy to spot if it starts happening out of the
blue. When they start answering questions about things no one has asked about is when
you know they’re running scared/
“Drugs” are not in themselves evil. I assure you that without some of them a good many of us would not be here to complain. Yes, there are drugs that are poorly tested and do substantial harm. Yes, we are, as a group, over-medicated. It is with drugs as with vaccination: some perform a true service to humanity and some do not. They can be abused and misused, as can all things human. However, we would be well advised not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I suspect its the additives in the food we eat along with the glyphosate (Monsanto owned now by Bayer)
sprayed on the crops, then whatever is sprayed on them after harvest to make them last longer
in storage, etc.
It’s coming. They should televise the trials and give maximum sentences.
If you click on “Continue reading” in the above article and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see headlines of criminals actually being charged and sentenced. How refreshing.
Honestly, some people just can’t take positive news and this comment is one of them. They’ve caught the fraudsters and have stopped the bleeding.
It’s not “unsatisfactory” but restitution will take time.
Can’t we take the wins when we get them?
Nationwide injunctions & orders to return seized property & 💰 to “the class” incoming…
Seriously… they could have just created another “provider tax” & done their thievery legally.
Senator Josh Hawley grilled witnesses over big insurance companies hiring McKinsey to design schemes that defraud policyholders. Under questioning, experts confirmed the program was “incredibly successful” at systematically ripping off Americans every day. Hawley says people behind this corruption need to go to prison.
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Fraud indictments are like cockroaches. For every scam you catch there are a dozen more.
It is a safe bet fraud in Medicade alone reaches into twelve digit territory.
Sorry to be cynical but will any BIG players go to jail and stripped of ill gotten gains???
$245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets seized by feds.
One hope the big players will do some time. Former senator Bob Menendez just checked into Club Fed after his corruption conviction.
I doubt Bondi/Blanche/Bove are going to be any kinder to this lot.
See homer d
June 30, 2025 12:59 pm
DOJ – Who runs that department?
14.6 billion stolen ,243 million recovered,OK where is the rest??,every relative and friend of this crew needs an audit and civil forfeiture, also JAIL time. Without consequences this will never stop.All of government and its agencies and payees appears to be one large criminal enterprise. There is probably NO deficit if the corruption and fraud was stopped.I’m still waiting for the Epstein list.
A big number of people charged but very few will ever be arrested because they are safely outside of the country with the money.
So in reality only a handful will ever face trail.
Sadly so far, Bondi still hasn’t arrested anyone yet.
But makes for a big but fake msm headline.
The only hope is to try and prevent such fraudulent payouts in the first place, but DOGE proved gov bureaucrats are resisting such efforts all too successfully.
Perp Walk? Or are those out of vogue now?
CNN only gets tips when someone on the right is getting their doors kicked in.
Wow!!!
Tip of the iceberg.
Government will never end the waste, fraud, and abuse. The Simple Solution get government out of health care. Privatize it and let the marketplace work. Government is a magnet for grifters at all levels.
Don’t forget the coffee mug warmers on govt jet planes…$1400 a unit…and on Amazon, less than ten bucks.
Release their names
Maybe someone in New York?
Yes, please.
Many names of people, go to continued reading link, the names of the individuals and their charges and where they are from are linked w/in.
Not a lot of American names in that list,
Before today we were all celebrating President Trump’s HUGE wins over the last history making two weeks.
And then, The Great Healthcare Fraud Takedown showed up and said, “Hold my beer.”
I am so not tired of winning!
This investigation was started in 2023 under Biden’s DOJ in what was called Operation Gold Rush. Still a good thing to celebrate. But not full credit or ownership goes to Trump or Bondi.
This must be prevalent in any bureaucratically run Healthcare system with few safeguards. Well done the President Trump Government. Wish this would happen in the UK.
There must be a few others with snouts in different bureaucracy troughs out there twitching today. Excellent.
Remember that to Congress a “cut” means spending more than last year, but not as much more as they wanted to spend.
If they spent 1 trillion last year and had planned to spend 1.5 trillion this year but then change it to 1.25 trillion they say they “cut” spending by 250 billion.
Any budget cut still leaves that “baseline” increase. I think it’s 8%.
💯 🎯
Imagine the surprise!
Good work.
Betcha all Dimms.
Now follow the money to Dimm office holders that facilitated the fraud andvthesfy
Oh, I know, I know!!!!
Start at Maryland. Do some research about how the local , state, and federal dems
all seem to be joined at the hip to John Hopkins.
Johns Hopkins that tortures beautiful Owls for fun. https://support.peta.org/page/7677/-/1?locale=en-US
And J. Hopkins is tied to your favorite intelligence services.
Anyone going to prison?
324 people have been indicted/charged. So, it is more than likely majority of those will see some prison time.
A lot will be allowed to plead down, but I’ll take what I can get.
Rule number one: Follow the Money!
Rule number two: Show Me the Convictions!
When the smoke clears on this one there needs to be long prison sentences served by all involved. If not, then where’s the incentive for those in government to not repeat this abuse?
If the case of that arrested immigration judge is any indicator…its gonna be a while.
It will be interesting to see which loudmouths in the Congress and Senate suddenly lose their voices.
I want to know if any of this fraud is connected to the hospitals that killed COVID patients with a protocol they knew didn’t work (Remdesivir, ventilators, etc.), because hospitals were paid to use that protocol.
Mandatory audits on the number of intubations performed during that time frame. Mandatory audits of use of said drugs, and ventilators…would be a very easy audit…
audit the diagnosis of covid…’tubed and ‘vented and meds for covid given.
That needs to be investigated and universally exposed, because it turned patients into a commodity that had more value dead than alive.
It doesn’t matter what the intention of the reimbursement scheme may have been. It is the outcome that counts in the real world.
@66 I should know better, but it would be nice if we had a team of “A Person(s) of Interest” to track this kind of crap down and a willing DOJ to prosecute.
Hey a guy can dream, right?
This is why this country needs teams of people overlooking and investigating instead of it being way to easy for people to rip the U.S. taxpayers off.
Any politicians involved ?
A month or so ago, and I forget where, but I read that Big Pharma has a lobbyist assigned to each congress critter.
Lobbyists know. They need to be squeezed and start singing.
👏👏👏👏
Is Florida Senator, Rick Scott, included in the indictments?
I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg. One of the worst thing about the swamp is a total lack of accountability.
Wonder what other “services and programs” our hard-earned tax dollars fund that have similar waste, fraud and abuse?
If D.O.G.E. fulfills it’s mandate to root this kind of waste and fraud out, and the agencies and programs and services become efficient AND effective, our country might actually end up eliminating the debt!
Of course, we’d have to replace the current Congress with members not so eager to spend every penny that comes into the Treasury!
By the way, when will Congress be audited?
Zero tolerance needs to become the only standard. Stealing from the government needs to be prosecuted to the harshest standards.
We need to see the defendants lists, where they are and who the employers are.
Are these merely individuals gaming the system, or are some coordinating with each other, and are there deeper ties to the hospitals, clinics, practices, agencies to which they are connected or employed.
From the (continue reading) hyperlink…
“Principal Assistant Deputy Chief Jacob Foster, Assistant Deputy Chief Rebecca Yuan, Trial Attorney Miriam L. Glaser Dauermann, and Data Analyst Elizabeth Nolte, all of the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, led and coordinated this year’s Takedown.
The cases are being prosecuted by the Health Care Fraud Unit’s National Rapid Response, Florida, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles, Midwest, New England, Northeast, and Texas Strike Forces; U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the District of Arizona, Central District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California, District of Columbia, District of Connecticut, District of Delaware, Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Georgia, District of Idaho, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern District of Kentucky, Western District of Kentucky, Eastern District of Louisiana, Middle District of Louisiana, District of Maine, District of Massachusetts, Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Michigan, Northern District of Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi, District of Montana, District of Nevada, District of New Hampshire, District of New Jersey, Eastern District of New York, Northern District of New York, Southern District of New York, Western District of New York, Eastern District of North Carolina, Western District of North Carolina, District of North Dakota, Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Oklahoma, Western District of Oklahoma, District of Oregon, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, District of South Carolina, Middle District of Tennessee, Western District of Tennessee, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, District of Vermont, Eastern District of Virginia, Western District of Washington, and Northern District of West Virginia; and State Attorneys General’s Offices for California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The Health Care Fraud Unit’s Data Analytics Team used cutting-edge data analytics to identify and support the investigations that led to these charges.”
More, please!
The $$$ is gone forever and only pennies are ever recovered.
All Medicaid participants should be required to use HMOs and the government simply pays the monthly premium. No over billing and there is no incentive for participants to fraudulently over utilize medical services since the government isn’t paying for doctor’s visits.
Maybe the Health Care Fraud Unit’s Data Analytics Team can be placed on – loan to the DOJ attorney in charge of investigating election/voter fraud crimes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/bondi-doj-claims-it-cannot-enforce-voter-fraud/
So where are the indictments for all the NGO / Aid money laundering that DOGE supposedly found?
That should make this Medicare indictment look like chicken feed.
Screw them to the wall….
We want names…
NO MERCY!
Pelosi, SEC’s Gensler, and UHC come to mind
Interesting timing, considering all the publicity about ‘health care cuts’ in the BBB.
Read all 81 posts and was surprised to see (not!) none giving kudos to the constantly maligned DOJ for “not doing a damn thing” except go on talk shows. And, of course, the recent Supreme Court just happened by magic, too.
As recently stated…things are not always as they seem.
Timing!
No coinkydink
Just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s about time somebody got serious about this fraud. There have been many investigateive articles about this kind of fraud, written by conservatives of course, ignored by the media and denied by the government for many decades.
Since DOGE was not allowed access to the payment systems in the Treasury Dept, they were not able to crosscheck to see how many of those hundreds of thousands of Social Security members over 120 years old listed as “Active” to determine if they were not actually still being paid.
Perhaps while looking you might consider such agencies as those who are responsible for disability. Many people are given disability because the agency is required to meet a goal. That don’t seem right. While disabilty is a state run the payments come for SSA.
Just the tip of the iceberg— there’s a lot more of this to come!
This was all found by Doge…..
Everybody was saying ‘then arrest these people’…..
Cases take time
Thanks Big Balls
Thank you President Trump, and most especially Elon Musk and his FANTASTIC DOGE team!!!!!
The depth and breadth of this operation is incredible. Phenomenal. I remember sitting in the back hallway listening to a clinical trials investigator talk about his case(s), just one teeny little niche in the miasma of medical fraud, and the work that went into that. This is more than I can even being to wrap my brain around. Just freakin’ Awesome.
Russia And ‘eastern Europe’,…FUKraine
Finally!
This one’s been flying under the radar since Jan 20, I suspect!
What a metaphor for our B-2 bombers!
Medicaid should only provide benefits via HMOs!!! The government is only responsible for paying the monthly HMO premiums based on competitive bidding and verified eligibility and is not responsible for paying doctors, hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. There’s no way doctors or hospitals can bill the government for fraudulent medical services and fraud is totally eliminated! We save trillions of dollars and simply verify that the HMOs provide necessary medical care! 🫡. Of course, it would also work for Medicare but that would be too political and run into far more opposition.
$4,295,00,000 is less than a 3rd. It’s far less if the $4B is not considered in the $14B+ headline number.
Remember, John Fetterman didn’t win.
Fake pandemic
Stop pretending
Tip of the iceberg. Keep digging.
By the way, what happened to the gold inventory at Fort Knox? What happened to the drones over NJ? Etc. Etc. Etc.
When are you going to lock up Adam Schiff?