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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
U.S. Foodservice Inc.US Foods HoldingwholesalersFalse Claims Act and related2010USAO$30,000,000
Sutter Health LLCSutter Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2019DOJ_CIVIL$30,000,000
Centene Corp.Centenehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2022NE-AG$29,343,907
Lifemark HospitalsTenet Healthcarehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2002DOJ_CIVIL$29,000,000
Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals CorporationNovartispharmaceuticalsoff-label or unapproved promotion of medical products2010MULTI-AG(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $29,000,000
Lincare Holdings, Inc.Lindeindustrial servicesFalse Claims Act and related2023USAO$29,000,000
North American Health Care Inc. False Claims Act and related2016DOJ_CIVIL$28,500,000
Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare CorporationAdventHealthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2004DOJ_CIVIL$28,300,000
Centene Corp.Centenehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2021KS-AG$27,600,000
Schering-PloughMerckpharmaceuticalsFalse Claims Act and related2004DOJ_CIVIL$27,000,000
National Healthcare CorporationNational Healthcare Corp.healthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2000DOJ_CIVIL$27,000,000
Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics Inc.University of Florida Healthhealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2013DOJ_CIVIL$26,000,000
CareSource False Claims Act and related2011DOJ_CIVIL$26,000,000
Centene CorporationCentenehealthcare servicesFalse Claims Act and related2023SC-AG$25,898,071
Pediatrix Medical Group False Claims Act and related2006USAO$25,078,918
Pediatrix Medical Group False Claims Act and related2016MULTI-AG(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $25,078,918
CareAll Management LLC False Claims Act and related2014DOJ_CIVIL$25,000,000
Odyssey HealthCareApollo Global Managementprivate equity (including portfolio companies)False Claims Act and related2012DOJ_CIVIL$25,000,000
BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois False Claims Act and related2011DOJ_CIVIL$25,000,000
Alere Inc.Abbott LaboratoriespharmaceuticalsFalse Claims Act and related2018MULTI-AG(*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $4,860,779
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.