Mealey's (June 29, 2022, 7:45 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pointing out “the obvious problem” with the government’s argument in a May 24 amicus brief that “‘courts have largely converged on an approach that allows relators either to identify specific false claims or to plead other sufficiently reliable indicia supporting a strong inference that false claims were submitted to the government,’” petitioners in a June 7 supplemental brief urge the U.S. Supreme Court to review dismissal of their False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit against a hospice that allegedly paid illegal kickbacks to physicians for referrals and submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare....