Millennium Labs Faces Medicare Whistleblower Retaliation Suit

Millennium Laboratories will have to explain why it terminated an employee who blew the whistle on alleged false claims it submitted to Medicare.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California will allow Ryan Uehling’s case to move forward despite Millennium’s protests that Uehling was not engaged in an activity protected by the False Claims Act. In allowing the case to move forward, the court does not see a problem with Uehling’s slightly different explanation to the court about what he told Millennium’s president in a previous retaliation case.

Uehling said he approached the company’s president, Howard Appel, ...