An eight-year-old lawsuit brought against America’s largest health insurer just got a big boost from the Trump administration.
On Friday lawyers for the Department of Justice joined a suit against UnitedHealthcare that accuses the insurance giant of defrauding Medicare of hundreds of millions of dollars.
“This is a very big development and sends a strong signal that the Trump administration is very serious when it comes to fighting fraud in the health care arena,” Patrick Burns, of Taxpayers Against Fraud in Washington, tells Kaiser Health News.
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