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Opioid crisis: 412 charged for US health care fraud
The Justice Department, which called it the largest-ever enforcement action of its kind, said 120 of the 412 defendants had been charged with opioid-related crimes.
WASHINGTON: US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams worth $1.3 billion including the wrongful prescription and distribution of opioids.
The Justice Department, which called it the largest-ever enforcement action of its kind, said 120 of the 412 defendants had been charged with opioid-related crimes.