Illinois-based Apex Hospice & Palliative Care Inc. and its former medical director reached a confidential settlement of a False Claims Act suit alleging the company fired her in retaliation for calling attention to Medicare fraud, a federal district court said Friday.
Janice Makela’s suit is dismissed without prejudice, Chief Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said in an order. Counsel for the parties didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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