False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $2 Billion in Fiscal Year 2022

DOJ press release (7 Feb 2023) on FY2022 FCA recoveries: over $2.2 billion; 351 settlements and judgments; more than $72 billion since 1986; health care over $1.7 billion; relator typically 15-30%; 652 qui tam suits ("more than 12 new cases every week", average, not recorded); qui tam recoveries exceeding $1.9 billion; over $488 million to whistleblowers; PPP: 35 matters, over $6.8 million recovered (more than $1.5 million SBA losses avoided, not a recovery, not recorded); Zylon matters final total over $136 million from 17 parties; international mail carriers more than $84 million to date; first Cyber-Fraud Initiative settlement (Comprehensive Health Services $930,000); Lifeline programme "nearly $2 billion each year" (programme size, not FCA, not recorded). Whistleblower cases: Biogen $843.8 million (pursued by a whistleblower), Cigna (intervened), several intervened qui tam kickback actions (lab and hospital CEOs, six physicians). Named matters not linked to a qui tam suit in this release (not cases): Mallinckrodt $260 million, Gold Coast Health Plan and providers $70.7 million, AHF nursing homes complaint, Providence $22.7 million, Eargo $34.37 million, Crossroads Hospice $5.5 million, SignatureHomeNow $2.1 million, Hayat Pharmacy $2.05 million, PPOA $24.5 million, MD Labs up to $16 million, Radeas $11.6 million, continuing suits (UnitedHealth, Independent Health, Elevance, Kaiser), PCCA suit, chiropractor and labs suit, Philips Respironics $24.75 million, Flower Mound $18.2 million, Kaleo $12.7 million, Solera $1.3 million, 32 Texas doctors more than $5 million (Dr. Finnie $582,522), Balfour Beatty $35.2 million, KBR $13.67 million, Honeywell $3.35 million, Prosperity Bank $18,673, MorseLife $1.75 million, Air France/KLM $3.9 million, Delta $10.5 million, TriMark $48.5 million, TracFone $13.4 million, Dr. Kochumian $9.5 million, Doyle $3 million, Zahr $1 million. Already in the data: 6 observations. Added: 2 rules, 5 observations (new indicator settlements_judgments_count proposed), 3 cases. Decision 10 pass (2026-10-10): every named settlement, judgment and newly announced government suit not already in cases.csv added as a case with whistleblower_link=not_stated (the document does not tie it to a whistleblower): 38 cases (34 settlements, 4 pending government suits or claims). Amounts as printed (lower/upper bounds and global vs civil parts explained in notes); individuals only where named by the agency as parties. Not recorded as cases: '35 False Claims Act matters' recovering over $6.8 million in PPP cases (an unnamed aggregate), and the repeat mentions of continuing Medicare Advantage litigation against UnitedHealth, Independent Health and Kaiser (already recorded from earlier sources); Elevance (first appearance) is recorded as pending. The 'STF' and 'Modern Vascular' names in the individuals paragraph refer to the two kickback complaints (lab CEOs case already recorded; chiropractor suit added).