(March 6, 2024, 1:51 PM EST) -- PHOENIX — An Arizona federal judge denied dismissal of a consolidated qui tam suit filed against a chiropractor and his office-based lab (OBL) franchises, alleging that they violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by participating in a “scheme” to offer financial rewards to physicians who referred vascular surgeons to the OBL franchises, finding that the defendants’ knowing reimbursement to their physician investors sufficed to make a claim for FCA violations....