Rehabilitation Company Defeats Bid to Reinstate Retaliation Suit

Feb. 25, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

Therapy Resources Management LLC convinced the First Circuit to uphold a trial court rejection of its ex-employee’s whistleblower suit, which claimed the rehabilitation services firm fired her for calling attention to Medicare fraud.

The district court correctly found that TRM didn’t violate the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provision when it fired physical therapist Rosemary Morgan-Lee, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said in a Monday opinion.

Morgan-Lee sued TRM and several other companies in 2013 at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging improper Medicare billing.

The district court in 2023 rejected Morgan-Lee’s retaliation ...

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