Mealey's (November 1, 2021, 2:15 PM EDT) -- NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge in Tennessee on Oct. 27 declined to dismiss state and federal false claims act claims in a qui tam lawsuit brought by a relator and the states of Tennessee and Louisiana against a provider of mobile dental care services for long-term care (LTC) facilities and several of its affiliates stemming from an alleged Medicaid kickback scheme because the plaintiffs have sufficiently shown that the defendants’ business model violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS)....