Ohio-based healthcare services company TriHealth Inc. and others secured the dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging it engaged in a Medicare kickback scheme to increase patient referrals.
Whistleblower Set Shahbabian failed to adequately allege that TriHealth and other defendants provided benefits to each other in a way that violated the anti-kickback statute, Judge Douglas R. Cole of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said in an Oct. 9 decision to dismiss. Shahbabian has 30 days to amend his complaint.
TriHealth previously failed to persuade the court that FCA whistleblower suits violate Article II of ...
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Ohio-based healthcare services company TriHealth Inc. and others secured the dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging it engaged in a Medicare kickback scheme to increase patient referrals. W...