The Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud, waste and abuse continues, with the Department of Justice last week launching a new effort targeting healthcare fraud.
The DOJ rolled out a strike force targeting healthcare fraud in Arizona, Nevada and Northern California. The new strike force — which the DOJ is calling its “West Coast” healthcare fraud strike force — comes seven months after the department launched a similar strike force going after healthcare fraud in Massachusetts. Florida is not on this list yet, even though it has a reputation for healthcare fraud, but it might be next.
Experts think the new strike force reflects the federal government’s broader effort to adapt its fraud enforcement to industries that are becoming more data-driven and tech-enabled each day.
Why these regions?
The new West Coast strike force is an expansion of a longstanding enforcement model that…
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