{"id":83922,"date":"2026-06-25T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83922"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:13:58","slug":"455-people-including-doctors-charged-in-historic-6-5b-health-care-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/455-people-including-doctors-charged-in-historic-6-5b-health-care-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"455 People Including Doctors Charged In Historic $6.5B Health Care Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> USA Today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More than 450 people, including doctors and nurse practitioners across 45 states, have been charged in connection with global health care fraud schemes totaling a record $6.5 billion, the Department of Justice announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The federal agency, in\u00a0<a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/national-health-care-fraud-takedown-results-455-defendants-charged-connection-over-65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\">a news release<\/a> on June 23, wrote the alleged fraud and opioid abuse schemes involved 455 people who submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other health care programs and &#8220;caused significant patient harm, including death.&#8221;\u00a0Of the group charged in the schemes, prosecutors said at least 90 were doctors and other licensed medical professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Today: More than 450 people, including doctors and nurse practitioners across 45 states, have been charged in connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83923,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922\/revisions\/83923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}