UnitedHealth Filing Reflects DOJ’s Heightened Fraud Focus

Stradling shareholder Jason de Bretteville was quoted in a Bloomberg BNA article:

"Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC shareholder Jason de Bretteville, who leads the firm’s white-collar criminal defense practice, told Bloomberg BNA Feb. 17 the DOJ’s civil division “significantly expanded FCA enforcement in the healthcare industry under [the] Obama [administration],” including against upcoding practices. De Bretteville said the DOJ’s intervention against UnitedHealth “appears to be more of a continuation of this enforcement trend,” and not necessarily an indication of the Trump administration’s health-care fraud priorities."