The US Department of Justice announced the discovery of the largest healthcare fraud case in history, prosecuting 324 defendants and involving over $14.6 billion in false claims. These defendants include 96 professional medical personnel such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc., distributed in 50 federal districts and 12 state attorney general's offices across the United States.
This operation also seized over $245 million in cash, cryptocurrency, luxury cars, and other assets, while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prevented over $4 billion in fraudulent payments by suspending or revoking billing privileges for 205 providers.
The "Operation Gold" case involved in the case accounts for $10.6 billion in fraudulent amounts and is related to organized crime in Russia, Estonia, and Kazakhstan. Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated that there will be zero tolerance towards criminal activities that exploit the healthcare system for profit.
