Mealey's (April 28, 2021, 9:24 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 26 affirmed the dismissal of a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit accusing a hospice of engaging in a scheme that paid illegal kickbacks to physicians who referred patients to its care and then submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare, finding that the allegations in the relators’ complaint did not satisfy the heightened pleading requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) and that the relators lacked sufficient knowledge of the scheme that could give rise to some indicia of reliability....