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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal

Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Billing Abuses
Description: This list shows cases in which healthcare companies paid penalties of $25 million or more to resolve allegations that they improperly billed Medicare and other government health programs.
Penalty Total since 2000: $10,640,554,423
Number of Penalty Records: 120
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
Top 10 Current Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
Centene$886,076,12712
UnitedHealth Group$872,300,0004
HCA Healthcare$840,000,0001
Quest Diagnostics$543,000,0002
Encompass Health$373,000,0002
SCAN Health Plan$323,670,0001
Walgreens Boots Alliance$304,200,0003
Elevance Health$278,170,1143
RWJBarnabas Health$265,000,0001
Millennium Health$256,000,0001

Individual Penalty Records:

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CompanyCurrent ParentCurrent Parent IndustryPrimary Offense TypeYearAgencyPenalty Amount sort icon
Centene Corp.Centenehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2022TX-AG$165,600,000
Beverly EnterprisesFillmore Capital Partnersprivate equity (including portfolio companies)False Claims Act and related2000DOJ_CIVIL$170,000,000
Cigna GroupCignahealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2023DOJ_CIVIL$172,294,250
TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp.TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corporationhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2020DOJ_CIVIL$179,700,000
WellCare Health Plans Inc.Centenehealthcare servicesinvestor protection violation2010MULTI-AG$200,000,000
United Therapeutics CorporationUnited TherapeuticspharmaceuticalsFalse Claims Act and related2017DOJ_CIVIL$210,000,000
Amerigroup CorporationElevance Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2008DOJ_CIVIL$225,000,000
Amerigroup Illinois and Amerigroup CorpElevance Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2006IL-AG(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $225,000,000
Conduent State Healthcare LLCConduentmiscellaneous servicesFalse Claims Act and related2019TX-AG$235,900,000
Quest DiagnosticsQuest Diagnosticshealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2011CA-AG$241,000,000
Millennium HealthMillennium Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2015DOJ_CIVIL$256,000,000
Saint Barnabas CorporationRWJBarnabas Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2006DOJ_CIVIL$265,000,000
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.Walgreens Boots AllianceretailingFalse Claims Act and related2019USAO$269,200,000
HealthCare Partners Holdings LLCUnitedHealth Grouphealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2018DOJ_CIVIL$270,000,000
Quest Diagnostics IncorporatedQuest Diagnosticshealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2009DOJ_CIVIL$302,000,000
SCAN Health Plan, Senior Care Action Network, and Scan GroupSCAN Health Planhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2012CA-AG$323,670,000
HealthSouth CorporationEncompass Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2004DOJ_CIVIL$325,000,000
United Diagnostics Lab et al. False Claims Act and related2023USAO$370,000,000
DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.UnitedHealth Grouphealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2015DOJ_CIVIL$450,000,000
HCA-The Healthcare CompanyHCA Healthcarehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2000DOJ_CIVIL$840,000,000
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.