The Justice Department announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various healthcare fraud schemes involving over $14.6 billion in intended loss. The Takedown involved federal and state law enforcement agencies across the country and represents an unprecedented effort to combat health care fraud schemes that exploit patients and taxpayers. It was led and coordinated by the Health Care Fraud Unit of the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and its core partners from the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, Health and Human Services OIG, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Drug Enforcement Administration. The VA OIG, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Homeland Security Investigations, Internal Revenue Service Investigation, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Department of Labor, United States Postal Service OIG, Office of Personnel Management OIG, and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies participated in the operation.
“VA’s Integrated Veteran Care Programs provide critical community-based health care to our nation’s disabled veterans and their dependents,” said Acting Inspector General David Case of the VA OIG. “Robust oversight of VA’s health care system is one of VA OIG’s highest priorities. The VA OIG is committed to holding accountable those who defraud government benefits programs intended to care for our nation’s heroes.”
