United States Ex Rel. Hutcheson v. Blackstone Medical, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that similar language in a provider agreement was sufficient to state a claim that subsequently submitted Medicare claims were false under the FCA
• noting that FCA makes no distinction between how non-submitting and submitting entities may render the underlying claim or statement false or fraudulent
• stating that a 12(b)(6) motion requires the court to analyze the facts alleged in the complaint “in the light most hospitable to the plaintiff’s theory”
• stating that a 12(b)(6) motion requires the court to analyze the facts alleged in the counterclaim “in the light most hospitable to the plaintiff’s theory”
• stating that a 12(b)(6) motion requires the court to analyze the facts alleged in the complaint “in the light most hospitable to the plaintiff’s theory”
• explaining that “the fact that the physician claims sought payment for services rather than devices” does not “render the fact that the physicians accepted kickbacks irrelevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).