Today, United States Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida announced criminal charges against 12 defendants in connection with alleged schemes to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP), and private insurers. The charges filed in federal court are part of the Department of Justice’s 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown. The charges stem from schemes involving over $4 billion dollars in fraudulent claims for DME, skin substitutes and wound care products, laboratory testing, and community mental health services that were medically unnecessary, procured by kickbacks to marketers and beneficiaries, and not provided, some of which involved transnational criminal organization activity and significant patient harm and risk to public safety.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice