DOJ asks judge to move forward UnitedHealth Medicare fraud case

The Division of Justice on Wednesday urged a federal choose to not toss out its long-running fraud case towards UnitedHealth Group that alleges the corporate illegally collected billions of {dollars} from the Medicare Benefit program.

The arguments from the DOJ quantity to a final stand within the high-profile whistleblower case that it joined in 2017. The company had till April 2 to answer a particular grasp’s advice from March, which mentioned the DOJ lacked proof to show UnitedHealth illegally withheld a minimum of $2 billion in overpayments from taxpayers.

UnitedHealth now has till Might 2 to answer the DOJ. An organization spokesperson mentioned its response to the DOJ would come then, and declined to remark additional.