The United States Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled interest in a whistleblower’s lawsuit against Georgia-based Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC by asking for Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar’s views of how much detail is necessary to plead fraud “with particularity” under the False Claims Act.
Tejinder Singh of Goldstein & Russell, as attorney for relator Jolie Johnson, urged the high court to review a ruling of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to resolve a split among the circuits.
Johnson and a colleague, former employees of a sister company of Bethany, filed suit in federal court in Georgia in 2019. They provided extensive details about the for-profit chain’s alleged scheme to drum up business by paying illegal kickbacks to doctors for referrals, and said the government must have paid because “100% or nearly 100%” of the patients were on Medicare or Medicaid.
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