4sight Health January 10, 2024
Nearly a year ago, I missed a big story.
Every February, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) releases an annual report on the civil False Claims Act settlements and judgments the agency made the previous fiscal year. The report is a yearly barometer on who is trying to defraud the federal government and how hard the DOJ is trying to stop it. Most of the activity on both sides of that equation happens in healthcare.
Last February, I missed the DOJ’s release of the annual tally of civil fraud and false claims settlements and judgments that the agency made in fiscal 2022, which ran from Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022. I’m sorry.
Here’s what I missed:
- Total civil...