MD Spine Stops Whistleblower’s Bid to Reinstate Fraud Lawsuit

MD Spine Solutions LLC, which does business as MD Labs Inc., defeated a whistleblower’s bid to reopen a False Claims Act suit alleging it billed Medicare for a medically unnecessary type of urinary tract infection test, the First Circuit said.

The lower court didn’t err in finding whistleblower Omni Healthcare Inc. failed to adequately allege MD Spine knowingly engaged in fraud, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said Monday.

Omni, a medical practice owned by Craig Deligdish, sued at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2018. Chief Judge Patti B. Saris granted MD ...