( October 6, 2023, 1:24 PM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas federal magistrate judge on Oct. 5 denied a relator’s request to reopen discovery in his qui tam suit alleging that Medtronic and its related company and a hospital violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by participating in a scheme to provide medically unnecessary treatment resulting in the submission of false claims for payment to federal health care programs, finding that the relator failed to establish good cause to reopen discovery....