Enforcement, updated every day.
Every health care enforcement release from the Department of Justice and the HHS Office of Inspector General, including state attorneys general and Medicaid fraud control units, fetched daily and read into the same schema the detectors use. Each one links to the providers it names when the match is certain, and the newest is dated August 24, 2026. These are public records of charges, pleas, sentences and settlements, not findings by Verity.
Southern District of Georgia federal indictments include murder, drug- and firearm-related charges and healthcare fraud
Perry Patalano was indicted for Healthcare Fraud, Theft of Government Money, Property or Records, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
Two Georgia Men Charged in National Health Care Fraud Takedown
Rutledge billed Georgia Medicaid for thousands of wound care, cyst removal, psychotherapy, and allergy testing services that were never performed, and Releford obtained nursing jobs by lying about his qualifications and stealing a licensed practical nurse's identity, causing providers to bill Medicare and Medicaid for services he could not legally perform.
Two Sentenced to Prison for $522M Genetic Testing Fraud and Illegal Kickback Scheme Targeting Medicare and Medicaid
Two men who controlled four laboratories paid kickbacks and bribes to marketers to obtain DNA samples and fraudulent requisition forms from medical providers, resulting in approximately $522 million in false claims for medically unnecessary genetic tests.
Behavioral therapist pleads guilty to health care fraud for submitting inflated insurance reimbursement claims
From June 2020 through May 2023, Stallings submitted false and fraudulent billing claims to TRICARE for individual and group therapy services that were not provided or were not provided as presented, and also obtained COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds that she spent on personal purposes.
Georgia Man Sentenced for $24M Kickback and Medicare Fraud Conspiracy
Moore instructed a network of recruiters to induce Medicare beneficiaries to accept medically unnecessary genetic tests, received approximately $4.3 million in kickbacks for referring beneficiary information, DNA specimens and doctors' orders, and concealed the payments with sham invoices.
Georgia Man Sentenced for $24M Kickback and Medicare Fraud Conspiracy
Moore instructed a network of recruiters to induce Medicare beneficiaries to accept medically unnecessary genetic tests, received approximately $4.3 million in kickbacks for referrals of beneficiary information, DNA specimens and doctors' orders, paid kickbacks to recruiters, and concealed the payments with sham invoices while associated laboratories billed Medicare approximately $24 million.
Mahlega Abdsharafat and Creative Hospice Settle Health Care Kickback Claims for $9.2 Million
Abdsharafat and the Creative Hospice entities entered into kickback arrangements with medical directors, including monthly stipends and a signing bonus, in exchange for referrals of hospice patients to Creative Hospice, causing the submission of false claims.
Robert Burkich, M.D. Settles Case Alleging that he Submitted False Claims for Chelation Therapy to Medicare
The United States alleged that between September 2009 and January 2017 Burkich billed Medicare for administering the chelation drug EDTA to beneficiaries who were not suffering from lead poisoning, falsely representing that patients suffered from lead poisoning or other heavy-metal-related diseases.
Pain-Management Doctor and Medical Practice to Pay $3.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act and Control Substances Act Allegations
The government alleges Dr. Kabakibou and his practice billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary and duplicative urine drug testing and pre-signed opioid prescriptions left for nurse practitioners to dispense while he was out of the country.
C.R. Bard, Inc. and Affiliates Pay $17 Million to Resolve Allegations of Healthcare Kickbacks
The Liberator Defendants allegedly provided discounts, excessive free samples, and cost savings for in-office supplies to urology practice groups to persuade them to use Bard's "Link" prescription form for prescribing intermittent catheters, later steering those prescriptions to Bard's own DME subsidiary.
Drug Wholesaler Agrees to $1.5 Million Settlement of Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act Allegations
The United States alleges that from 2013 to 2018 the defendant induced the sale of its pain creams to physicians by offering them at or near cost, billing the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs on behalf of the physicians at an exorbitant markup and then splitting the reimbursement with the physicians.
American Health Imaging, Inc. and Scott Arant to Pay Over $5 Million to Resolve Allegations of Healthcare Kickbacks
AHI and its former founder and CEO provided physicians with meals, tickets to sporting events, and other gifts and entered into above fair market value personal services agreements with referring physicians to induce referrals of diagnostic scans to AHI's independent diagnostic testing facilities.
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Sentenced to Prison
Oxendine conspired with a physician to pressure doctors in the physician's ENT practice to order medically unnecessary pharmacogenetic, molecular genetic, and toxicology tests from a Texas lab that submitted more than $3 million in claims to private insurers and paid them 50 percent of net profits as kickbacks.
Tapestry Hospice Settles Healthcare Kickback Claims for $1.4 Million
Tapestry Hospice and its owners and managers entered into kickback arrangements with medical directors, including monthly stipends and a signing bonus tied to patient referrals, in exchange for referrals of hospice patients, causing the submission of false claims.
Macon Resident Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice in Civil Investigation
The owner of an outpatient rehabilitation facility instructed two employees to create, sign and alter patient records produced in response to a Civil Investigative Demand during a federal civil investigation into improper healthcare billing.
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine Pleads Guilty in Health Care Fraud Scheme
Oxendine conspired with a physician to pressure doctors in the physician's ENT practice to order medically unnecessary pharmacogenetic, molecular genetic, and toxicology tests from a Texas lab in exchange for kickbacks of 50 percent of net profits.
Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge and Agrees to Pay $14.3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Laboratory owner and his clinical laboratory paid volume-based commissions to independent contractor sales representatives and percentage-based kickbacks to a mentoring program to arrange for medically unnecessary urine drug tests and respiratory pathogen panels billed to federal health care programs.
Georgia Laboratory Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge and Pays $14.3 Million to Resolve Liability Relating to Kickbacks and Unnecessary Testing
A laboratory owner and his lab paid volume-based commissions to independent contractor sales representatives and a percentage of Medicaid reimbursements to operators of an after school program to arrange for medically unnecessary urine drug tests and respiratory pathogen panels billed to federal health care programs.
Florida Business Owners Sentenced in Durable Medical Equipment Bribery Scheme
Weiner and Desalvo, through Laboratory Marketing Services, received kickbacks from DME companies for Medicare beneficiary leads and bought and sold signed physicians' orders, many bearing unauthorized provider signatures, causing over $1.5 million in false claims to Medicare for medical braces.
Operator of Durable Medical Equipment Companies Sentenced in Healthcare Kickback Scheme
Orobor, through his durable medical equipment companies, paid kickbacks in exchange for signed doctors' orders for braces obtained via overseas call centers and submitted approximately $20.5 million in claims to Medicare, receiving about $13.3 million in payments.