Philadelphia Health-Care Provider Hit With Retaliation Lawsuit

Philadelphia-based Quality Community Health Care Inc. is accused of violating the False Claims Act by firing a former chief medical officer in retaliation for her calling attention to federal grant fraud, according to a complaint filed Friday.

Stephanie Santoro says she was fired by Quality Community because she complained that the health-care provider was intentionally inflating the number of patients treated to maintain eligibility for funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Santoro says she told Quality Community employees of her concerns about the inflated numbers, and about having to sign a report stating that the information ...