The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced charges against 601 people including doctors for taking part in health-care 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 health-care 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 health-care programs, officials sought in the latest crackdown to emphasize their efforts to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic...
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