Mealey's (February 11, 2022, 10:31 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — Rehearing of a consolidated appeal brought by relators in five related qui tam lawsuits alleging that for-profit hospital and outpatient care center operator Community Health Systems Inc. and several of its hospitals engaged in a fraudulent billing scheme against federal health insurance providers is necessary because a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel erred in determining that neither the first-to-file bar nor the public disclosure bar were applicable in determining which relators were entitled to attorney fees, CHS argues in a Feb. 9 petition for rehearing and/or rehearing en banc filed in the federal appellate court....