11th Circuit Reinstates Medicare Fraud Verdict Against Nursing Home For $85M

Mealey's (July 17, 2020, 2:31 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 25 vacated in part a federal judge in Florida’s ruling granting a motion for judgment as a matter of law to two skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Florida, two entities that provided management services to those facilities and 51 other SNFs in the state and an entity that provided rehabilitation services to those facilities and ruled that they should pay $85 million in damages after finding that a relator in a False Claims Act (FCA) case presented sufficient evidence to show that the companies intentionally submitted fraudulent bills to Medicare (Angela Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation LLC, doing business as La Vie Rehab, et al., No. 18-10500, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 19789)....