The federal watchdog for the U.S. health department generated $5.56 billion in expected recoveries and projected savings over six months and barred 1,212 individuals and companies from federal programs, it said on Monday, even as its overall enforcement activity fell to the lowest level in two years. The decline complicates the Trump administration’s portrayal of an unprecedented crackdown on healthcare fraud. The headline figure was anchored by a handful of large cases, including a 15-year prison sentence for a telemedicine software executive behind a $1 billion scheme and $674 million in settlements with Kaiser Permanente affiliates and CVS Health’s (CVS.N) Aetna over inflated Medicare Advantage billing.
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Source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-health-watchdog-expects-556-billion-recoveries-savings-2026-07-13/