In FY 12, federal health care fraud investigations resulted in the recovery of $4.2 billion, according to the annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report from the departments of justice and health and human services.
According to the report, for every dollar spent on health care fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years, the government recovered $7.90. This is the highest three-year return rate in the program’s 16-year history. Since 1997, the program has returned over $23 billion to the Medicare Trust Funds.
