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The Justice Department announced yesterday the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in charges against 455 defendants, including 90 doctors and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in health care fraud and opioid abuse schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims and significant patient harm, including death.

The enforcement action included:

• Actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to suspend 1,079 providers and revoke billing privileges for 1,403 providers.
• 48 Civil Monetary Payment settlements amounting to over $73 million, over 1,400 provider exclusions, and 25 actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”) under the Civil Monetary Penalties Law seeking more than $10 billion in payments to the Medicare Trust Fund from payments that CMS caught and suspended before the funds were paid to the fraudulent providers.
• Civil charges against 13 defendants for $14.8 million in health care fraud schemes, as well as civil settlements with 31 defendants totaling $23 million.
• 928 administrative cases by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seeking the revocation of authority to handle and/or prescribe controlled substances since October 1, 2025.

In coordinated statements announcing the National Health Care Fraud Takedown, Trump administration officials described the operation as the largest whole-of-government effort in U.S. history to combat health care fraud.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it a “new era of enforcement” under President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, aimed at safeguarding taxpayer dollars.

Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald emphasized the Justice Department’s aggressive posture: “There is no case too big, no scheme too complex,” warning that anyone who puts profit over patients should expect prison.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stressed the human cost of fraud, noting that it steals from taxpayers, exploits vulnerable patients, and puts lives at risk. He vowed that those who misuse the health care system for personal enrichment will be found, prosecuted, and held accountable, with HHS focused on protecting patients and restoring integrity to the system.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin framed the takedown as part of a broader effort to end crimes by bad actors ripping off U.S. taxpayers, underscoring a unified “whole of government” approach.

FBI Director Kash Patel called the results historic, announcing the arrest and charging of over 450 individuals — including nearly 100 medical professionals — for alleged schemes totaling more than $6 billion. He described the operation as a clear message to criminal actors: “You will not get away with your crimes.”

Two cases were brought by the District of Connecticut.

Coastal Diagnostics LLC (“Coastal”), a reference laboratory based in Branford, Connecticut, and its owner, Tricia Conroy, have agreed to pay more than $145,000 in a civil settlement to resolve allegations of Medicaid enrollment fraud.

According to the settlement, Coastal and Conroy made material misrepresentations on their Medicaid provider enrollment application by failing to disclose that Coastal was closely related to another laboratory already operating as a Medicaid provider. The second laboratory was owned and operated by Conroy’s husband, shared the same business address, and listed Conroy as its chief operating officer.

Had the relationship been properly disclosed, Medicaid would not have approved Coastal as a provider, as the related laboratory was under a payment suspension and actively under fraud investigation at the time. After Coastal began submitting claims, Medicaid discovered the connection and terminated its provider agreement.

In a related 2025 settlement, the other laboratory paid over $1.2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to government health care programs for medically unnecessary drug tests.

The case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard M. Molot (District of Connecticut) and Assistant Attorney General Christine Miller (Connecticut Office of the Attorney General).

The second case involved Habroon Habib, 30, of Middletown, Connecticut. He has been charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business through his company, Around The World Solutions LLC, as part of a health care fraud scheme.

Habib allegedly submitted fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment to Medicare Advantage plans in Connecticut, totaling approximately $1.9 million. Around The World Solutions received roughly $680,571 in payments from those claims.

Between March 12, 2025, and May 14, 2025, Habib is accused of sending 14 wire transfers totaling $425,000 from Connecticut to financial institutions in Pakistan. Neither Habib nor his company was licensed by the State of Connecticut to conduct interstate or foreign money transmissions.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Sheldon of the District of Connecticut.

You can watch the press conference here:

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