Last year was the fourteenth consecutive year the DOJ recovered over $2 billion in False Claim Act settlements and judgments from fraud related to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE, according to law firm Rivkin Radler.
Still, rampant fraud has proven difficult to curtail, despite federal and state agencies’ efforts to identify and remove bad actors from the industry. Omar Pérez Aybar, special agent at the HHS’ Office of Inspector General in Florida, told CNBC earlier this year that addressing healthcare fraud feels “almost like the game of whack-a-mole, where we hit one and another pops up.”
