( February 18, 2025, 12:52 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 14 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a qui tam relator’s suit alleging violations of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by a hospice provider and related entities for improper admissions to hospice, finding that though the lower court should have addressed the amended complaint, it correctly dismissed her claims under the first-to-file rule because of a previously filed similar case against some of the same defendants....