Home Health Company Wants High Court Review of Medicare Fraud Case

A home health-care provider in Tennessee is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a whistleblower’s allegations that it committed fraud to receive millions in Medicare payments.

A former employee of Brookdale Senior Living filed the False Claims Act complaint in 2012. She alleges the company’s “aggressive solicitation” of patients violated regulations because doctors didn’t properly certify the need for home care.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided with the whistleblower in June and sent the case back to a federal court in Tennessee. In doing so, the Sixth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit, which ...