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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is tightening its focus on identifying fraud – with a particular focus on enterprise-wide abuses – across the medical device industry, according to research by legal firm Barnes & Thornburg LLP. The Indiana-headquartered law firm’s 2025 Healthcare Enforcement and Compliance Annual Report, released in April 2026, reveals that False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for fiscal year 2025 (FY25) – running from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, totalled $6.8bn, representing the highest total in a single year in the history of the FCA. More than $5.7bn of this total encompassed healthcare sector entities, according to the report, with around $76m in total recoveries for false claims in relation to the medical device industry. With the $76m recovery figure spanning “five or six” enforcement actions in the medical device industry across FY25, Jackie Papish, partner at Barnes & Thornburg and a co-editor on the enforcement report, notes that the actions being seen are becoming “more enterprise-wide”. “Enforcement actions are trending beyond little one-off discrepancies such as, for example, billing for unnecessary services in a confined, siloed space with one certain provider; it’s more enterprise-wide,” Papish tells Medical Device Network. #DoJ #FDA #healthcarefrausd #legal Read the full report below: https://lnkd.in/etNCVjaD