A top government lawyer warned last week that Department of Health & Human Services was ready to expand its use of debarring “untrustworthy individuals” as a way to hold health care companies accountable for fraud.

“We intend to use this essential fraud-fighting tool in a broader range of circumstances,” Lewis Morris, chief counsel to the inspector general of the department, told a congressional panel.

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