The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division just posted its second consecutive week of more than $1 billion in fraud enforcement actions. The headline case: a federal jury in South Florida convicted the man behind a massive Medicare billing machine that targeted hundreds of thousands of seniors. Brett Blackman, 42, founder, owner, and CEO of a health care software company called HealthSplash, was found guilty on May 13 on three conspiracy counts tied to a scheme that billed Medicare and other federal health care programs more than $1 billion for medically unnecessary equipment. The figure is hard to miss: one billion dollars. And Medicare actually paid out more than $450 million on those claims before the operation was stopped. U.S. Dept. of Justice: A federal jury in south Florida has convicted the owner of a healthcare software company, Brett Blackman, for his role in a $1 BILLION Medicare fraud scheme. Blackman is the founder and owner of HealthSplash. Details from the DOJ: https://t.co/v0aDkLXYfppic.twitter.com/V1RREOB0qY — Chenue Her (@ChenueHer) May 15, 2026 The Justice Department laid out the mechanics of the scheme in detail. Blackman acquired and controlled an internet-based platform called DMERx that generated fraudulent doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment and prescriptions. DOJ said a federal jury convicted Brett Blackman, 42, founder, owner, and CEO of HealthSplash, for his role in a Medicare fraud conspiracy involving more than $1 billion in billed claims. The department said Blackman controlled DMERx, an internet-based platform that generated fraudulent doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment and prescriptions. According to the department, Blackman and his co-conspirators targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, used foreign call centers and spam mailers, arranged for purported telemedicine doctors to sign bogus orders, and connected marketers, suppliers, pharmacies, and telemedicine companies through kickback arrangements. DOJ said some doctors signed orders after no meaningful interaction with the beneficiary, and sometimes no interaction at all. The department said Medicare and other insurers paid more than $450 million on the claims while evidence showed the scheme was hidden through sham contracts and audit-avoidance manipulation. Blackman was convicted on three conspiracy counts and faces sentencing on August 26, 2026. The DOJ said some of the telemedicine doctors who signed the orders had no meaningful interaction with the patient whatsoever. In some cases, there was no interaction at all. Seniors were flooded with unnecessary orthotic braces and other items they never asked for and did not need. The bills went straight to taxpayers through Medicare. Evidence presented at trial showed the conspiracy was hidden through sham contracts and what DOJ described as audit-avoidance manipulation. Owner of Health Care Software Company Convicted of 1 Billion Dollar Medicare Fraud Conspiracy This reads less like “billing fraud” and more like an industrialized Medicare extraction machine. DOJ says Brett Blackman, founder and owner of HealthSplash, was convicted for running… pic.twitter.com/Cu62ViRJwP — Joseph See (@josephsee) May 14, 2026 Blackman now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on the health care fraud and wire fraud conspiracy count, five years on the kickback count, and five years on the conspiracy to defraud the United States count. Sentencing is scheduled for August 26, 2026. The conviction was the centerpiece of a broader enforcement roundup announced by the Justice Department on May 15. The department said prosecutors around the country were pursuing criminals stealing American taxpayer dollars across multiple fraud categories. The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced numerous enforcement actions in the past week as prosecutors around the country pursued criminals stealing American taxpayer dollars. The weekly roundup made HealthSplash the headline example, pointing to the conviction of the company’s founder and owner for operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal health care programs. The roundup also listed enforcement actions involving unemployment fraud, Social Security disability fraud, PPP fraud, CDC grant money, offshore-tax evasion, cryptocurrency income, and other benefit-program cases. DOJ tied the work to President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse inside federal benefit programs. The weekly roundup also included cases involving unemployment fraud, Social Security disability fraud, PPP fraud, CDC grant fraud, and tax fraud. DOJ tied the work directly to the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to root out fraud, waste, and abuse inside federal benefit programs. Two straight weeks north of $1 billion in enforcement actions sends a clear message. The fraud division is open, active, and hunting. Every dollar recovered or prevented from leaving the Treasury is a dollar that belongs to the taxpayers who funded Medicare in good faith, not to software company owners running billion-dollar billing scams out of South Florida.              How does that sound?               This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.