The US Department of Justice has completed one of the largest health -related vessels in the history of the department in July.
National healthcare fraud included 280 state and federal cases in 12 states and 50 federal areas. Four Pensacola women were also charged as part of $ 14.6 billion common health schemes.
Alexandra Christensen, Lindsay McRra, Heather Bradley and Jennifer Pearls were federally accused of being claimed to have spent nearly a decade of forged recipes for controlled substances as part of the resale conspiracy of illegally obtained medicines.
Here’s what we know about national health care fraud in 2025, which included the four Pensacola women.
What is national cheating for cheating in healthcare?
Four Pensacola women have been accused of being part of the large -scale imported fraud throughout the country, resulting in a loss of $ 14.6 billion.
The national healthcare fraud in 2025 was a coordinated federal investigation involving numerous agencies, which led to criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors practicing nurses, pharmacists and other licensed professionals in 50 federal regions and 12 state prosecutors.
The government has taken over $ 245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency and other assets as part of the coordinated implementation efforts.
The US lawyer at the North District of Florida John Hecin said efforts are to “eradicate healthcare frauds, which lose taxpayers, exhaust the resources needed for vulnerable patients, and contributes to the opioid epidemic that struck our communities.”
Download included various types of healthcare fraud, including fraudulent wound care, opioid trafficking, recipe, telemedicine and genetic test fraud and even crimes involving transnational criminal organizations.
In total, including the four Pensacola women, federal law enforcement agencies, saying that all the defendants have so far deceived various healthcare facilities of $ 14.6 billion by stealing and distributing 15.6 million controlled substances in the form of pills or filed fake Medicare claims.
What did Alexandra Christensen, Lindsay McCra, Heather Bradley and Jennifer Pearl do?
The four women accused by the federal big jury worked for family medical practice, which has numerous clinical places in the cities of Ekambi and Santa Rosa.
From January 1, 2015, until June 25, 2024, McCra and Christensen claim to have abused access to the electronic medical system of the recipe print clinic according to the administration of drug implementation numbers in the clinic without their knowledge.
It is claimed that they have written these recipes for people who did not exist, a total of over 300,000 Hydrocodone pills and over 30,000 oxycodone pills.
Bradley and Parshi then have sold other people’s pills in the community.
“The defendants say they have deceived programs entrusted with the care of the elderly and are disabled to arrange their own pockets,” Hayenen says in a news message.
McTra and Bradley are also accused of possession of amphetamine with the intention of spreading it throughout the community between November 2023 and June 2024.
McCray and Purves were accused of distributing amphetamine between January 2024 and April 2024.
What is Gold Rush Operation?
Twenty -nine defendants have been charged with their role in transnational criminal organizations claiming to have filed over $ 12 billion in fraudulent claims to America’s health insurance programs.
This includes a nationwide investigation known as the Operation Gold Rush, which has led to the greatest amount of loss ever loaded in the event of a healthcare fraud filed by the department, said in a DOJ message.
These allegations were announced in the Eastern County of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, the Central County of California, the Middle County of Florida and the New Jersey County against 19 defendants. Twelve of these defendants were arrested, including four defendants who were detained in Estonia as a result of international cooperation with Estonian law enforcement and seven defendants who were arrested at the US airports and the US border with Mexico, cutting off their intended routes while trying to avoid the capture.
It is alleged that the organization used a network of foreign straw owners, including persons sent to the United States from abroad, who, acting in the direction of others using encrypted messages and suggest identities from abroad, strategically purchased dozens of medical companies located in the United States. They then quickly filed $ 10.6 billion in demand for fraudulent health care for Medicare.
National Health Care Fraud
Four Pensacola women, Alexandra Christensen; Lindsay McTra; Heather Bradley; And Jennifer Pearls were accused of as part of $ 14.6 billion in national repression of healthcare fraud. These countries are the countries involved in the operation.
The national fraud fraud in 2025 includes 50 federal districts and 12 general lawsters of the General Services in the United States and resulted in:
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Criminal charges against 324 defendants
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Seizure of over $ 245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency
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Civil charges against $ 20 defendants for $ 14.2 million alleged fraud as well as civil settlements with $ 106 defendants totaling $ 34.3 million
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29 defendants have been charged with their roles in transnational criminal organizations who are said to have filed over $ 12 billion in fraudulent claims to America’s health insurance programs.
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74 defendants, including 44 licensed medical professionals who have been accused of 58 cases in connection with the alleged illegal deviation of over 15 million pills of opioid prescription and other controlled substances
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49 defendants have been charged with the presentation of over $ 1.17 billion in supposedly fraudulent claims to Medicare as a result of telemedicine and genetic tests for schemes for fraud
An additional 170 defendants with various other healthcare schemes, including more than $ 1.84 billion, allegedly false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies for diagnostic tests, medical visits and treatments that have been medically unnecessary.
This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Operation Gold Rush Healthcare Part of the Pensacola Women Scheme