August 27, 2020
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday declined a request for rehearing en banc from a nursing home manager attempting to undo the appellate court's restoration of a $255 million False Claims Act jury verdict in a Medicare billing suit.
July 17, 2020
A nursing home manager attempting to undo a $348 million False Claims Act jury verdict in a Medicare billing suit told the Eleventh Circuit that the appellate court's decision to reinstate the award turned the FCA into a "mercenary tool for quasi-criminal enforcement of secret investors' agendas."
July 01, 2020
Courts have handed down a number of important rulings for federal contractors so far in 2020, including a decision significantly altering country-of-origin determinations and several developments related to the materiality standard for False Claims Act cases.
June 25, 2020
The Eleventh Circuit restored much of a $348 million False Claims Act jury verdict against a nursing home manager previously overturned by a district court judge, saying Thursday that a whistleblower had adequately shown the materiality of the company's Medicare overbilling.
January 01, 2019
The health care industry in 2019 will watch with bated breath as a guillotine hangs over the Affordable Care Act, historic litigation involving the opioid crisis heads to trial and the murky meaning of a landmark False Claims Act decision becomes clearer. Here, Law360 gets attorneys up to speed on must-watch cases in the year ahead.
December 14, 2018
Health care providers, insurers and consumers cheered and jeered remarkable rulings this year in cases involving the Affordable Care Act, the False Claims Act and huge sums of Medicare Advantage reimbursement. Here, Law360 recaps the year's biggest litigation developments.
September 12, 2018
A nursing facilities company slapped with a $350 million False Claims Act verdict told the Eleventh Circuit that a Florida federal judge correctly vacated the award, saying the case lacked material evidence of billing fraud under the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Escobar ruling.
August 31, 2018
Momentous developments in litigation involving Medicare Advantage, the Affordable Care Act and the False Claims Act are likely in the closing months of 2018. Here, Law360 runs through key health care cases to watch.
July 23, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice is assailing a Florida federal judge's elimination of a $350 million False Claims Act verdict against a nursing chain, telling the Eleventh Circuit that the move reflected a "serious misunderstanding" of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Escobar decision.
July 17, 2018
A former nursing home company employee has urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a lower court decision tossing a $350 million False Claims Act verdict — among the biggest in FCA history — saying the judge wrongly concluded that the improper Medicare and Medicaid claims were immaterial.