The Department of Justice has charged 455 individuals, including 90 medical professionals, for their involvement in healthcare fraud schemes totaling over $6.5 billion, as part of the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on June 23.
The number of defendants is up from 324 in 2025 and 193 in 2024.
The operation represented “the greatest whole-of-government effort to combat healthcare fraud in our nation’s history,” Blanche told reporters. It involved cases across 45 states and 56 federal districts, and 50 state Medicaid fraud control units participated, the most in the department’s history.
The effort resulted in the apprehension and return to the United States of fraudsters operating from Cyprus, Estonia, and the Philippines, who had bilked taxpayers out of more than $15 billion, according to a federal statement. Officials have seized more than $182 million in assets since June 8, including cash and luxury cars….