Mealey's (July 13, 2020, 11:06 AM EDT) -- FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Florida-based hospice care provider on July 9 entered into an agreement in federal court in Florida in which it agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve allegations asserted in a suit brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) that accused it of billing insurers for hospice services provided to patients who did not qualify for them and that were medically unnecessary from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2016 (U.S. ex rel. Margaret Peters v. Hope Hospice and Community Services LLC, et al., No. 16-cv-6- FtM-99MRM, M.D. Fla.)....