{"id":10842,"date":"2026-06-01T06:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/episode-420-doj-announces-new-west-coast-health-care-fraud-strike-force-the-volkov-law-group\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:22:35","slug":"episode-420-doj-announces-new-west-coast-health-care-fraud-strike-force-the-volkov-law-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/episode-420-doj-announces-new-west-coast-health-care-fraud-strike-force-the-volkov-law-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 420 &#8212; DOJ Announces New West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force | The Volkov Law Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice has announced a new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force, signaling an expansion of federal enforcement efforts targeting health care fraud, telemedicine schemes, kickback arrangements, and technology-enabled billing misconduct. In this episode, Michael Volkov examines DOJ\u2019s evolving enforcement strategy, including the growing use of data analytics and AI-driven investigations, increased scrutiny of private equity-backed health care entities, and heightened expectations for compliance oversight. Michael<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumShowLink()\">  See\u00a0more\u00a0+<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has announced a new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force, signaling an expansion of federal enforcement efforts targeting health care fraud, telemedicine schemes, kickback arrangements, and technology-enabled billing misconduct. In this episode, Michael Volkov examines DOJ\u2019s evolving enforcement strategy, including the growing use of data analytics and AI-driven investigations, increased scrutiny of private equity-backed health care entities, and heightened expectations for compliance oversight. Michael also discusses practical compliance lessons involving billing audits, telehealth controls, third-party risk management, and board-level governance in an increasingly aggressive enforcement environment<span class=\"red moreLessLink pointer\" onclick=\"sumHideLink()\">  See\u00a0less\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has announced a new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force, signaling an expansion of federal enforcement efforts targeting health care fraud, telemedicine schemes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1444,4433,2181,1343,5305,2078,643,1126,1648,153,1633,7768,1628],"class_list":["post-10842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-announces","tag-care","tag-coast","tag-doj","tag-episode","tag-force","tag-fraud","tag-group","tag-health","tag-law","tag-strike","tag-volkov","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}