Health Care Fraud v. The FCPA
With all the press and Congressional attention to anti-corruption enforcement, it is important to keep things in perspective. FCPA enforcement is aggressive but pales in comparison to federal government efforts to combat fraud in the Medicare system. It is estimated that almost 10 percent ($48 billion) of Medicare’s $507 billion budget in 2010 was made for fraudulent or improper payments. The Center for Medicare and...