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LATEST: FinCEN issues advisory to financial institutions on healthcare fraud

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

FINCEN, the U.S. Treasury’s AML unit, has warned financial institutions to step up monitoring of healthcare fraud, citing growing risks from organised crime and cross-border networks.

The agency issued an advisory urging firms to be “vigilant about fraud schemes targeting government health care benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid”.

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