Pathway Denied New Trial in False Claims Act Retaliation Case

Pathway of Baldwin County LLC is stuck with a $38,141 jury award to a former clinical director who claimed that the youth rehabilitation center defrauded Alabama Medicaid.

Pathway failed to show that the False Claims Act retaliation trial was tainted by inadmissible hearsay, Judge Kristi K. DuBose of the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama said in a Thursday order denying a motion for a new trial, and a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law. The jury heard Sheppard’s direct testimony as to his conversations with two supervisors regarding Pathway’s process for billing Medicaid, ...