8 Years Of Health Care Enforcement: Doing Less With More
By Michael Loucks, Maya Florence and Alexandra Gorman (August 10, 2017, 10:29 AM EDT) -- During the period 2008 to 2016, funds allocated to federal health care enforcement quadrupled, going from $255 million in 2008, to $577 million in 2011, to more than $963 million in 2016. At the same time, from the very start of his tenure, former United States Attorney General Eric Holder embraced health care fraud enforcement actions with vigor — creating "healthcare enforcement action teams" (or HEAT) in numerous cities, adding resources to a Main Justice unit for health care fraud cases, and periodically announcing significant and coordinated arrests of individuals nationwide.[1] Between the rhetoric from the U.S. Department of Justice and the quadrupling of enforcement funds, one would expect an overall and substantial increase in health care fraud enforcement....
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