Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Plays Key Role in Largest Health Care Fraud Takedown in U.S. History

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (“MFCU”) played a major role in the largest health care fraud enforcement action in American history, resulting in criminal charges against 30 defendants connected to more than a dozen fraudulent health care schemes in Texas. The schemes collectively accounted for more than $177 million in fraudulent billings, $1.7…