False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $2.68 Billion in Fiscal Year 2023

DOJ press release (22 Feb 2024) on FY2023 FCA recoveries: exceeding $2.68 billion; record 543 settlements and judgments; more than $75 billion since 1986; health care over $1.8 billion; relator typically 15-30%; 712 qui tam suits ("more than 13 new cases every week", average, not recorded); qui tam recoveries exceeding $2.3 billion; over $349 million to whistleblowers; PPP about 270 matters and over $48.3 million; laboratory/MSO kickback investigation: over $2.6 million from five entities and ten individuals in FY2023, 43 physicians and over $46 million to date; Kabbage proofs of claim (losses over $60 million alleged, a claim, not a recovery, not recorded). Whistleblower case: Rite Aid (complaint in intervention in a whistleblower suit). Named matters not linked to a qui tam suit in this release (not cases): Cigna $172 million (its intervention appears in the FY2022 release), Martin's Point $22.5 million, continuing Medicare Advantage suits, Cornerstone $21.6 million, Smart Pharmacy at least $7.4 million, Saratoga $7.1 million, Endo proof of claim, Modern Vascular suit, Cardiac Imaging $85.5 million, Carter Healthcare $22.9 million, ModMed $45.4 million, NextGen $31.2 million, Borgfeld $325,000, Drs. Shelton and Boedefeld $396,360, CenCal and providers $95.5 million, BioTelemetry nearly $45 million, Lincare $29.0 million, Advanced Bionics more than $11.0 million, Booz Allen $377 million, L3 $21.8 million, Boeing $8.1 million, Victory Automotive more than $9 million, Coyne PR $2.24 million, Seasholtz more than $600,000, Britton-Harr suit, Jelly Bean $293,771, Verizon over $4 million, GCI $40 million, International Vitamins $22.8 million, Yale/Dr. Krystal $1.5 million, Aronowitz $23.9 million, HX5 about $7.8 million, Dr. Chung $6.6 million. Two sidebar teasers of other DOJ releases (Nassenstein, Hilcorp) at the end of the page are not part of this release. Already in the data: 6 observations. Added: 2 rules, 6 observations, 1 case. 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): 34 cases (30 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: about 270 PPP matters (over $48.3 million) and 'settlements with 43 physicians and recoveries of over $46 million' (unnamed aggregates), and repeat mentions of continuing litigation against UnitedHealth, Independent Health, Elevance and Kaiser. Sidebar teasers (Nassenstein, Hilcorp) are other releases.