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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it had won or negotiated more than $1.8 billion in healthcare fraud settlements over the past fiscal year. The DOJ opened 1148 criminal healthcare fraud investigations and 1079 civil healthcare fraud investigations from October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020. There were 1498 civil healthcare fraud matters pending at the end of that period.
