Federal Judge Affirms Orders As ‘Not Contrary To Law’ In FCA Medicare Fraud Suit

Mealey's ( February 16, 2023, 1:52 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge affirmed a magistrate judge’s orders excluding evidence and partially denying a relator’s motion to amend the complaint for the seventh time in a qui tam suit filed under federal and New York state False Claims Acts alleging that health systems defrauded the federal and state governments by submitting millions of dollars of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for home health services, finding that the magistrate judge’s rulings in the nondispositive matters were not “clearly erroneous or contrary to law.”...