Health Care Fraud Prosecutions Down 23 Percent

The current fiscal year is on pace to have the lowest level of federal prosecutions for health care fraud since 1998.

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That’s according to a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first six months of FY 2016 the government reported 239 new health care fraud prosecutions.

If this activity continues at the same pace, the annual total of prosecutions will be 478 for this fiscal year.

This estimate is down 23.2 percent from the past fiscal year when the number of prosecutions totaled 622.

The comparisons of the number of defendants charged with health care fraud offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Compared to five years ago when there were 1,235, the estimate of FY 2016 prosecutions of this type is down 61.3 percent.

Prosecutions over the past year are lower than they were ten years ago. Overall, the data show that prosecutions of this type are down 9.5 percent from the level of 528 reported in 2006.

 

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