The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York recently announced the settlement of a health care False Claims Act case against Beth Israel Medical Center for fraudulently inflating its fees for services provided to Medicare patients in order to obtain larger “outlier payments.” Beth Israel agreed to pay over $13 million to
Federal Court Rules on Qui Tam Issue
In a recent Southern District of New York decision, Judge Jed S. Rakoff examined the original source exception to the False Claims Act’s (“FCA”) public disclosure bar. In United States ex rel. Associates Against Outlier Fraud v. Huron Consulting Group, Inc., 2012 WL 506824 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 16, 2012), the relator alleged that defendant Huron