A whistleblower failed to adequately allege a fraudulent scheme in which health-care providers received free equipment from a medical device maker in return for a promise to buy its products, then submitted the bills to the federal government.
A complaint alleging violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act must describe the allegedly unlawful conduct in detail, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said. Here, sales agent John Collado’s complaint had to be dismissed because he didn’t allege facts showing “the who, what, where, when, and how” of the allegedly fraudulent conduct, the ...
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