Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), which placed new limits on physician-owned hospitals, St. Luke’s Health System (“System”) took action to change one of its hospital’s ownership structures through a...more
12/11/2019
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Appeals ,
Dismissals ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Hospitals ,
Materiality ,
Physician-Owned Hospitals ,
Physicians ,
Relators ,
Stark Law ,
Universal Health Services Inc v United States ex rel Escobar
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned its own precedent to hold the FCA’s first-to-file rule is “non-jurisdictional.” In so doing, the First Circuit flipped the district court’s award...more
5/22/2019
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
First-to-File ,
Fraud ,
Jurisdiction ,
KBR v ex rel Carter ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Reversal ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblowers