Kentucky-based St. Elizabeth Medical Center Inc. and Summit Medical Group Inc. defeated a whistleblower’s attempt to reinstate a False Claims Act suit alleging they charged health-care programs for unnecessary kidney and vascular procedures, the Sixth Circuit said Friday.
Whistleblower Matt Anderson raised claims that were substantially the same as those in a separate 2017 FCA suit, which triggered the the FCA’s public disclosure bar, Judge John B. Nalbandian of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in nonprecedential opinion to affirm.
The bar precludes a suit when a whistleblower’s allegations merely add some new details to describe ...
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