Supreme Court Passes on Bid to Revive Tenet Whistleblowers’ Suit

The US Supreme Court said Monday that it won’t consider reinstating a whistleblower suit alleging that Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Detroit Medical Center violated the False Claims Act by improperly billing federal health-care programs for emergency room services.

The three whistleblowers’ petition for high court review argued that the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which rejected their suit, erred by concluding they didn’t plead fraud with sufficient particularity.

The Supreme Court’s decision to reject the petition, according to the whistleblowers, keeps in place a circuit split—the existence of which Tenet denies—over whether an FCA suit can advance ...