DOJ’s $6.5B Medicaid sweep raises stakes on ‘honest mistakes’

On June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had charged 455 defendants, including 90 physicians and other licensed health care professionals, with more than $6.5 billion in health care fraud and prescription opioid diversion.
The 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown included all 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units, international law enforcement partners and seizures totaling more than $182 million in assets, according to the DOJ.
Attorney Mark J. Silberman, JD, vice chair of the health care practice group at Benesch law firm, compared the fraud enforcement action to photos of

Structural barriers limit use of wearable technology in medicine

Despite strong physician enthusiasm, reimbursement and workflow issues have stifled uptake of wearable medical technologies, according to results of a recent survey conducted by the AMA.
The AMA’s Center for Digital Health and AI, along with Medscape, conducted the 2026 International Physician Survey on Consumer Wearables. Responses from 2,222 physicians in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom provided information on patient-generated wearable data, trust in the quality of the data gathered by these devices, reimbursement, workflow challenges, and