The Obama administration views health care fraud “as one of the most urgent and destructive issues” confronting federal law enforcement and has adopted “a zero tolerance policy” of the crime, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia said Thursday.
Speaking at conference on health care fraud Dec. 13 in Atlanta, U.S. Attorney Edward Tarver, an Obama appointee, said that for every $1 the administration has spent in prosecuting health care fraud, it has recovered $7. Tarver suggested that in his district the ratio of funds expended to dollars recovered is “probably better.”
