The US Supreme Court on Monday invited the US solicitor general to express the government’s views on whether whether a False Claims Act whistleblower adequately alleged that a diagnosis coding firm and several home health-care companies overbilled Medicare under an upcoding scheme.
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that Cathy Owsley didn’t sufficiently identify specific claims submitted to the government under the alleged fraud scheme allegedly perpetrated by Fazzi Associates Inc., Care Connection of Cincinnati, and others.
Owsley’s petition to the Supreme Court said the Sixth Circuit is one of five circuits with a “more rigid” ...
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