U.S. Strikes Medical Fraud

June 25, 2026

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/us-strikes-medical-fraud?

U.S. STRIKES MEDICAL FRAUD

June 23, 2026 takedown announcement shakes medical fraudsters to the core

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Jun 24, 2026

June 23, 2026 takedown: 455 defendants, 90 licensed medical professionals, over $6.5B in alleged false claims, HHS/CMS/OIG participation, CMS suspensions/revocations, and Sec. Kennedy’s statement on HHS collaboration with law enforcement. (Department of Justice).

The Department of Justice has announced an historic national health care fraud takedown involving 455 defendants, charging 90 physicians and other licensed health care professionals, in alleged schemes totaling more than $6.5 billion in false claims.

Federal authorities reported cases across 56 federal districts and 45 states and territories, participation by 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and seizure of more than $182 million in cash, luxury vehicles, jewelry, and other assets.

The announcement describes the largest health care fraud takedown in Department history, but its significance lies in what the cases reveal about the operating environment in which modern medical fraud can scale. These were not merely clerical irregularities or disputed interpretations of billing rules. The cases described by DOJ involve alleged kickbacks, medically unnecessary services, false diagnoses, prescription-drug diversion, hospice fraud, wound-care billing schemes, Medicaid exploitation, and patient harm, including death. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Remember “trust the science?” Well here we are……not trusting science or those who tell us to ‘trust the science.’

Best quote:

“The American people do not need lectures about trust. They need institutions that earn it. On June 23, 2026, federal law enforcement and HHS gave the country a glimpse of what earned trust requires: not deference to credentials, not blind faith in systems, and not public-relations medicine, but accountability.”

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