At a recent conference, leaders from the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS OIG”) announced areas of enforcement priority for the agency.  HHS OIG’s assistant inspector general of legal affairs, Lisa Re, explained that the agency is “working hard to assess how telehealth utilization changed during the pandemic,” and noted that the agency has already had “several large-scale national takedown actions involving telefraud schemes with sham or fake telehealth companies.”  One such enforcement action involved the indictment of a telemedicine company owner for a $784 million health care fraud, illegal kickback, and tax evasion scheme.

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