( May 13, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed with prejudice only non-California state law claims against a California-based provider of emergency medical services but otherwise denied dismissal in a qui tam suit alleging that the provider and a national medical management company violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and similar state laws by fraudulent upcoding when submitting claims for payment to government insurers, finding that the “relator has plausibly alleged that the fraudulent scheme at issue” extends outside the hospital....