Mealey's (December 7, 2022, 6:33 PM EST) -- NEWARK, N.J. — A relator has successfully pleaded claims that the owner and operator of numerous urgent care clinics coded patients’ visits for COVID-19 testing to be reimbursed at higher rates and billed for medically unnecessary office visits to survive a motion to dismiss under the False Claims Act (FCA) and Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (VFATA), a federal judge in New Jersey found....