Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to announce a major lawenforcement action this week targeting health care fraud, focusingon opioid treatment programs exploiting Obamacareinsurance plans, according to two people familiar with thematter.
In what is described as a nationwide sweep with hundreds ofarrests being carried out across the U.S., the Justice Departmentis cracking down on fraudulent claims made to some of the nation’sbiggest insurers, said one of the people.
People who run drug addiction treatment centers that havefiled bogus claims and those who have filed reimbursement claimsfor drugs they then sell illegally are among those to be charged,the person said.
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