Panel Ruling In FCA Attorney Fees Case Does Not Warrant Rehearing, Relators Say

(March 1, 2022, 8:56 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. (CHS) and several of its hospitals engaged in a fraudulent billing scheme against federal health insurance providers is unwarranted because CHS fails to raise any persuasive arguments supporting such action, the relators argue in a Feb. 24 opposition brief filed in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....