( November 29, 2023, 8:56 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge denied dismissal motions filed by a hospital, the administrator of its lab and the lab’s medical director and affiliated company in a relator’s qui tam suit alleging that they violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and Illinois state laws by submitting for reimbursement to government insurers claims for unnecessary testing for COVID-19 and other unrelated conditions, finding that the relator “plausibly alleged materiality” regarding the purported “overbilling scheme.”...