The NRC Office of Enforcement (OE) recently published its Enforcement Program Annual Report for calendar year 2020. The report shows that the number of escalated enforcement actions.
7 Whistleblowers filed 672 new
qui tam actions, 456 of which related to the healthcare
industry.
8 The DOJ obtained $2.2
billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving
fraud and false claims against the government, $1.8 billion of
which related to matters involving the healthcare industry.
With the outbreak of the pandemic, the DOJ aggressively pursued
fraud related to COVID-19 during the Trump administration. In the
early days of the pandemic, former Attorney General William Barr
directed the DOJ to remain vigilant in investigating and
prosecuting criminal activity related to COVID-19, warning that
the pandemic is dangerous enough without
wrongdoers seeking to profit from public panic and this sort of