Mealey's (June 3, 2022, 7:33 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saying the “divergent outcomes” the petitioners “view as evidence of disarray simply reflect courts’ application of a fact-intensive standard to a range of different allegations,” the United States in a May 24 brief says the U.S. Supreme Court should not review the dismissal of the petitioners’ False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit against a hospice that allegedly paid illegal kickbacks to physicians for referrals and submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare, noting that “it is unlikely that further review by this Court would produce greater uniformity or materially clarify the Rule 9(b) pleading standard for FCA complaints.”...