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Federal health care fraud prosecutions in the first eight months of 2011 are on pace to rise
85% over last year, according to new government statistics. The sharp increase is largely
attributable to ramped-up enforcement efforts under the Obama administration.
The new figures, released by the non-partisan Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse, indicate there have been 903 prosecutions so far this year. That’s a 24%
increase over the total for all of fiscal year 2010, when 731 people were prosecuted for
health fraud. Looking back five years, prosecutions have gone up an astounding 71%,
according to TRAC.
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