Judge Grants Judgment For Defendants In Suit Alleging Fraud in UTI Test Billing

( January 7, 2025, 2:32 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge on Jan. 6 “allowed” a motion for summary judgment filed by a lab and its owners in a qui tam suit alleging that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and similar state laws related to billing federal government insurers for medically unnecessary urinary tract infection (UTI) testing, finding that the allegations fail to show that the defendants knew they were submitting claims for unnecessary UTI testing....