Judge Tosses FCA Medicare Fraud Suit Against Hospitals, Cites Lack Of Details

(December 19, 2023, 1:32 PM EST) -- NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge dismissed a qui tam suit alleging that multiple hospitals violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and New Jersey law by automatically coding certain procedures for Medicare recipients for in-patient stays without using a case-by-case review, finding, in part, that the complaint fails to allege the “particular details of the scheme.”...