Relator’s Failure To Oppose Dismissal Motion Leads Judge To Dismiss FCA Suit

Mealey's (September 16, 2021, 9:38 AM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge in California on Aug. 18 dismissed a woman’s second False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit accusing two medical foundations and a group of doctors of fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid for breast cancer surgeries by upcoding services and unbundling procedures, finding that the woman failed to oppose the medical foundations’ motion at all....