Telemedicine, sober homes and opioids are all at the center of the largest health care fraud and opioid takedown in the United States. As reported by the United States Department of Justice, no less than 345 people have been charged with accounts of health care fraud that total over $6 billion in losses. The historic announcement of the charges was made by a unified group of departments, including the DoJ, FBI, DEA and HHS-OIG, on September 30th. According to the DoJ report,

Individuals who work for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) have extremely important jobs. They are tasked with identifying and combating waste, fraud and abuse in the HHS’s more than 300 programs. These programs include Medicare as well as others conducted by the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. The last thing you would expect from an HHS-OIG age