False Claims Act Claims In Qui Tam Suit Pass Muster; Conspiracy Claims Do Not

Mealey's (November 24, 2021, 1:59 PM EST) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A relator in a qui tam action against a health care organization, its president and two of its employees and others has sufficiently pleaded factual allegations in support of her claims that the defendants violated state and federal false claims statutes by engaging in a scheme to defraud federal health insurance providers for products the defendants sold to patients by submitting fraudulent claims for reimbursement, a federal judge in New Jersey ruled Nov. 22 in granting in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss and denying it in part....