(May 17, 2021, 9:38 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on April 29 refused to reconsider a Feb. 4 ruling dismissing with prejudice a relator’s claim that Kindred Healthcare Inc. and a number of its subsidiaries misrepresented their compliance with staffing requirements in order to receive larger reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid, finding that the court’s previous rulings should have put the relator on notice regarding the public disclosure bar’s applicability to the claim and that amending the cause of action would be futile....