United States Ex Rel. Ortega v. Columbia Healthcare, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “recovery may be had under the FCA for an implied certification where if the government had known of the violation when presented with the claim for payment, it would not have paid the claim”
• reasoning that “duplicative claims do not help reduce fraud or return funds to the federal fisc, since once the government knows the essential facts of a fraudulent scheme, it has enough information to discover related frauds”
• finding that “recovery may be had under the FCA for an implied certification where if the government had known of the violation when presented with the claim for payment, it would not have paid the claim”
• reasoning that “duplicative claims do not help reduce fraud or return funds to the federal fisc, since once the government knows the essential facts of a fraudulent scheme, it has enough information to discover related frauds”
• considering allegations contained in both original and amended complaint in first-filed qui tam action to determine whether the second qui tam action was barred
• “[P]ermitting infinitely fine distinctions among complaints has the practical effect of dividing the bounty among more and more relators, thereby reducing the incentive to come forward with information of wrongdoing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).