Mealey's (August 25, 2015, 2:06 PM EDT) -- NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A federal judge in Indiana on Aug. 24 denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss it from a former emergency room doctor’s False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit, after finding that the plaintiff’s allegation that he was subject to retaliatory termination as a result of his complaints that the hospital was fraudulently billing Medicare are not subject to the heightened pleading requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) (James Thomas, M.D. v. EmCare Inc., et al., No. 14-cv-00130-SEB-TAB, S.D. Ind.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111514)....