Mealey's (March 24, 2020, 1:13 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 23 reversed a ruling dismissing a woman’s False Claims Act (FCA) suit accusing a hospital of admitting elderly patients from skilled nursing facilities for medically unnecessary in-patient care to submit false bills to Medicare, finding that she was not required to plead that the doctor’s opinions to admit the patients were “objectively false” (United States ex rel. Jane Winter v. Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center Inc., et al., No. 18-55020, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 8986)....