In June, the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services charged 601 individuals in the largest health care fraud enforcement action to date. The enforcement actions (dubbed the “National Health Care Fraud Takedown”) were led by the Health Care Fraud Unit and the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, and charged individuals in 58 federal districts for their alleged participation in billions of dollars in false billings as well as for their roles in prescribing and distributing opioids and other dangerous narcotics.

Callan Stein and Miranda Hooker, Pepper Hamilton partners and members of the firm’s White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice Group and Health Sciences Department, discussed these charges and some of the trends they reveal in government enforcement actions targeting facilities and individual health care providers for their roles in alleged health care fraud, as well as strategies that can be employed to avoid government prosecution.

These are the PowerPoint slides from the presentation.