( November 30, 2023, 1:51 PM EST) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on Nov. 29 granted in part a relator’s motion to compel discovery in a qui tam suit brought on behalf of the federal government, alleging that medical providers and Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by conspiring together to increase risk adjustment scores of MA patients to obtain more federal funding than was owed, finding that because the fraud examples provided in the complaint do not show a purported scheme from 2014 continuing after 2020, discovery is limited to ending on the last day of 2020....