Health insurance fraud: 11 people indicted by the US justice system

The US justice system indicted an international network comprising 11 members based in Eastern Europe on 27 June 2025, in connection with a 10.6 billion USD scam. The scam targeted Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people over 65 and individuals with disabilities.

Between August 2022 and September 2024, the network allegedly acquired several medical equipment companies authorized to submit claims to Medicare.

These companies falsely confirmed that they had supplied equipment (urinary catheters, splints, glucometers) to more than a million Americans whose data had been stolen, enabling them to obtain reimbursements from the Social Security system.

Policyholders subsequently reported to Medicare that they had received forms indicating that they had allegedly obtained medical equipment, prescribed by doctors they had never consulted.

Over the past two years, the network had acquired several companies specializing in medical supply marketing, and had stolen the personal data of new policyholders to support fraudulent claims.

The defendants are facing charges of health insurance fraud and money laundering.