The relators’ claims that Chartspan Medical Technologies violated the AKA and the FCA were sufficiently pleaded.
A federal district court in Mississippi denied a motion to dismiss related to the two central claims in a qui tam suit alleging that a billing company offering chronic care management (CCM) services to medical clinics violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Anti-Kickback Act (AKA). The Family Clinic of New Albany and its co-owners brought the suit against Chartspan Medical Technologies, a South Carolina-based corporation that offers CCM services to medical clinics across the United States, and its Chief Executive Officer, alleging that Chartspan and its executive caused the clinic (and other clinics) to submit legally and factually false or fraudulent claims for CCM services to Medicare. The court determined that the relators had sufficiently pleaded a plausible violation of the AKA and sufficiently pleaded a claim against Chartspan under the FCA for presenting or causing the presentation of false or fraudulent claims for Medicare payment. The court did dismiss the claims against the Chartspan executive, after concluding that the relators did not allege a plausible basis that the executive violated the FCA in his individual capacity (U.S. ex rel. Family Clinic of New Albany v. Chartspan Medical Technologies, No. 3:21-CV-139-GHD-JMV (N.D. Miss. Aug. 14, 2025)).
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