U.S. charges hundreds in healthcare fraud, opioid crackdown

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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced

charges against 601 people including doctors

for taking part in healthcare frauds that resulted in over $2 billion in losses and contributed to the nation’s opioid epidemic in some cases.


The arrests came in dozens of unrelated prosecutions the Justice Department announced together as part of an annual healthcare fraud takedown.

The hundreds of suspects charged included

162 doctors and other suspects charged for their roles in prescribing and distributing addictive opioid painkillers.

Though many of the cases also involved a variety of schemes to fraudulently bill government healthcare programs, officials sought in the latest crackdown to emphasize their efforts to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...2F+Top+News%29

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ah, healthcare fraud. hits close to him tbh