Federal officials are charging 601 people, including more than 100
medical workers, for fueling opioid addiction in the largest bust of
health care fraud in U.S. history.
The Department of Justice
revealed the charges Thursday, which were brought as part of an annual
effort to dismantle schemes across the country involved in scamming
health care programs. The takedown included the arrest of 76 doctors, 23 pharmacists, 19 nurses and several hundred others
involved in prescribing and distributing massive quantities of opioid
medications, resulting in more than $2 billion in fraudulent costs to
federal health care programs and insurers, reports NBC News.