The defendants employed scores of call center employees and remote-billers to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from American businesses and launder the stolen monies overseas.
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Texas doctor illegally distributed a million opioid doses through strip mall pill-mill
Physician found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and four counts of unlawful distribution.
For compliance professionals attending the annual conference, the takeaway was hard to miss: 2026 will require a more rigorous compliance framework and transparency.
The new strike force will target healthcare fraud schemes across California, Arizona, and Nevada, bringing expanded federal enforcement to tech hubs and emerging fraud hotspots.
The new program responds to the growing use of public data to generate often-lucrative whistleblower complaints.
Healthcare-related enforcements totaled nearly $74m in just one week.
In a case involving an unlicensed person performing medical procedures on unwitting patients, the two California men billed state and federal programs $3.2m in false claims.
The advisory urged insiders at financial institutions to be vigilant for fraudsters, organized crime groups, and transnational criminal organizations that increasingly target government benefits programs.