More than 450 people, including doctors and nurse practitioners across 45 states, have been charged in connection with global health care fraud schemes totaling a record $6.5 billion, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The federal agency, in a news release on Tuesday, June 23, wrote the alleged fraud and opioid abuse schemes involved 455 people who submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other health care programs and “caused significant patient harm, including death.”
Of the group charged in the schemes, prosecutors said at least 90 were doctors and other licensed medical professionals.
In all, 56 federal districts and 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units participated in the investigation, the release continues.
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Since June 8, hundreds of defendants have been arrested in connection to the schemes, in what the Justice Department is calling the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown.
In one case in Arizona, Blanche said a corporate executive allegedly took $1 billion in taxpayer funds after billing wound grafts, charging more than $1 million per patient. The money was later allegedly used to buy million-dollar homes, luxury cars and even build a hotel in the Philippines, Blanche said.
In another case in Virginia, Blanche said the co-owner of a mental health company was charged with a $49 million Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted the homeless “by offering them illegal bribes in the form of hotel stays in exchange for using their Medicaid numbers to bill for crisis stabilization services that they did not need or receive.”
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