False Claims Act Recoveries in FY 2023 Exceed $2.68 Billion, Reports Department of Justice
On February 22, 2024, the Department of Justice announced that it had recovered an impressive $2.68+ billion under the federal False Claims Act in fiscal year 2023, bringing total recoveries under the statute since its overhaul and modernization in 1986 to $75 billion. Of the over $2.68 billion recouped last year, the lion’s share ($2.3 billion, or 86%) came from whistleblower-initiated cases. Whistleblower awards totaled almost $350 million. And these numbers don’t include recoveries under State False Claims Acts, which are often brought in conjunction with federal claims.
The Anti-Fraud Coalition whistleblower advocacy group reports that Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Department of Justice Civil Division, acknowledged the essential role of whistleblowers during his remarks at a Federal Bar Association conference in Washington D.C.: “For those of you on the relator side of the v, thank you for your efforts. We could not have done this without you.”
As in previous years, most of the funds returned to taxpayers came from cases involving the health care industry, amounting to $1.8 billion. Getnick Law has a long and distinguished record holding pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, clinical testing laboratories, and medical device companies accountable under federal and State False Claims Acts. Whistleblower cases filed by Getnick Law have recovered more than $1 billion for the United States Treasury, including in some cases criminal felony pleas by the defendant health care companies.