Tenet Healthcare Whistleblowers Ask SCOTUS to Review Fraud Suit

Three Tenet Healthcare Corp. whistleblowers say the US Supreme Court should determine whether they adequately accused the nationwide hospital business and Detroit Medical Center of improperly billing federal health-care programs for emergency room services.

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in April that the whistleblowers’ False Claims Act suit can’t move forward because they didn’t plead fraud with sufficient particularity. The whistleblowers said in their petition for a writ of certiorari filed Sept. 24 that this decision shows the justices should resolve a 5 to 7 “calcified” circuit split over whether an FCA suit can advance ...