( November 21, 2023, 11:47 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge dismissed the government’s claims against six skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), their owner and their management company two days after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it entered into a $45.6 million consent judgment with the SNFs and related parties in a suit alleging that they violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and California False Claims Act in submitting false claims to Medicare by paying kickbacks to physicians in exchange for the physicians referring patients to the SNFs....