Lexology January 18, 2024
On November 8, 2023, Thomas Tynan, the acting assistant chief of the Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Unit, announced in remarks to the Health Care Compliance Association that DOJ will increase its focus on investigating fraud related to Medicare Part C and COVID-19 testing scams. This announcement came on the heels of DOJ’s announcement the prior day that it planned to “substantially” add to its Health Care Fraud Unit, which is already comprised of over 80 prosecutors and dozens of investigators organized into Health Care Strike Forces. It appears DOJ means what it said: in November, DOJ filed a rare criminal indictment in the Southern District of Florida against Kenia Valle Boza arising from misrepresentations Boza made in relation...