Mealey's (October 21, 2019, 2:27 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Oct. 18 allowed a relator in a False Claims Act (FCA) suit brought against his former employer to amend his allegations that the company’s CEO violated the California Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (IFPA) when the company submitted claims to Medicare and other private insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular tests, finding that the man can include inferences that the insurers would not have paid for the tests had they known that they were not necessary (United States, ex rel. Bryan Barnette v. CardioDX Inc., et al., No. 15-cv-01339-WHO, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181015)....