A pharmacist failed to show that Lenexa, Kan.-based Pharmacy Alternatives LLC violated the False Claims Act by firing her for calling attention to the company’s alleged practice of using unlicensed personnel to dispense prescriptions, a district court said.
Deborah Ling didn’t plead sufficient facts to show she engaged in protected activity under the FCA or that Pharmacy Alternatives had notice of such activity, Judge Holly L. Teeter of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas said in an order issued Tuesday.
Ling conceded she was concerned only with potential violations of Kansas law, not with trying to stop ...
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