United States Ex Rel. James M. Thompson v. Columbia/hca Healthcare Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rule 9(b) requires an individual asserting a claim under the FCA to “set forth the ‘who, what, when where, and how’ of the alleged fraud”
• holding that the FCA is implicated where the government conditions payment upon the certification of compliance with regulations
• holding that an Anti-Kickback Statue violation may support a claim under the FCA under a false certification theory
• holding that Rule 9(b) requires an individual asserting a claim under the FCA to “set forth the ‘who, what, when where, and how’ of the alleged fraud”
• holding that false claims liability attaches only “where the government has conditioned payment of a claim upon a claimant’s certification of compliance with . . . a statute or regulation”
• recognizing that when the Government expressly conditions “payment of a claim upon a claimant’s certification of compliance with, for example, a statute or regulation, a claimant submits a false or fraudulent claim when he or she falsely certifies compliance with that statute or regulation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).