United States Second Circuit

In qui tam action involving hospitals from 30 states and alleging Medicare fraud, interlocutory appeal from a judgment granting in part and denying in part defendants' motions to dismiss is reversed in part and remanded with instructions that the remaining claims be dismissed on the ground that they are time-barred.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/16/2006
• Published 11/16/2006

Judges

• JACOBS, Chief Judge., Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, POOLER and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark H. Gallant, Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, for Amici Curiae American Hospital Association (Maureen D. Mudron, on the brief), Association of American Medical Colleges (Ivy Baer, on the brief).


• For Appellees:
  
• Ira Feinberg, Stephen J. Immelt, Therese M. Goldsmith, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Baltimore, MD;  Lorane F. Hebert, Dirk C. Phillips, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University, Emory University Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital., Frederick Robinson, Caroline M. Mew, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant Duke University Health System, Inc., Gates Garrity-Rokous, Wiggin and Dana L.L.P., New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Foster G. McGaw Hospital., Ray M. Shepard, Leonard C. Homer, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, MD, for Appellants-Defendants Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, St. Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, Inc., St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, Florida Hospital Medical Center., Eric D. Miller, Douglas N. Letter, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.