The federal government has the entirety of the United States of America to worry about when it comes to False Claims Act violations. Despite this, the city of St. Louis is one of nine regions within the nation that is heavily monitored by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. This is thanks to the fact that St. Louis has a large amount of federal health care program recipients; therefore, more claims are filed in areas with a large number of federal health care program recipients. According to information gathered by the federal government, the larger amount of claims filed translates into a higher likelihood that a False Claims Act violation will take place. In 2016, the Department of Justice released a statement announcing that they had launched investigations into more than 300 violations, and recovered more than $900 million in false claims as a result.