The work of the Detroit Strike Force is another important step in the multi-phase enforcement and regulatory HEAT initiative designed to reduce the potential for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Since its inception in March 2007 with phase one in South Florida and expansion to phase two in Los Angeles in May 2008, the Strike Force has obtained indictments of more than 250 individuals and organizations that collectively have billed the Medicare program for more than $600 million. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, is taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.
Each of the three Detroit Strike Force teams is led by a federal prosecutor supervised by the Justice Department's Criminal Division's Fraud Section in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. Each team has four to six agents, with at least one agent from the FBI and HHS-OIG.
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The cases are being prosecuted by attorneys from the Fraud Section in the Justice Department's Criminal Division, including Deputy Chief Kirk Ogrosky and Trial Attorneys John K. Neal and Benjamin D. Singer as well Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas W. Beimers in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, on detail from HHS-OIG.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
To learn more about the HEAT team, go to: www.hhs.gov/stopmedicarefraud
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