Magistrate Grants Stay To Hospital In FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Medicaid Fraud

Mealey's ( April 20, 2023, 4:14 PM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal magistrate judge granted a hospital’s request to stay discovery in part in a qui tam suit alleging that the hospital committed fraud in violation of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by making claims for Medicaid funding through matching federal grants based upon the hospital’s “own non-bona-fide donations,” finding that discovery will be permitted only as to the initial disclosures required under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1)....