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Thursday, June 19, 2025

HealthNow Constitutional Challenge to Whistleblowers Falls Flat - Bloomberg Law News

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HealthNow New York Inc. failed to demonstrate that a health-care program fraud suit against it should be thrown out because the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, a federal judge said.

HealthNow didn’t show that FCA whistleblowers appoint themselves as US officers in a way that violates the appointments clause in Article II, US magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr., of the US District Court for the Western District of New York said in a May 9 report and recommendation. HealthNow has 14 days to object to this decision, Schroeder said.

The company moved for judgment on the pleadings ...

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