United States Eighth Circuit
US v. Health Mgmt. Sys., Inc., 09-3439
In a qui tam action against two companies that contracted to perform work for Iowa's Medicaid program, and against two employees of the Iowa Department of Health Services, claiming that the defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by obtaining federal funds to pay for medical care resulting from medical negligence without seeking reimbursement from the tortfeasors as federal law required, dismissal of the action is affirmed where: 1) the documents submitted by plaintiffs did not disclose the "essential elements" of what the relators sought to prove; and 2) there was no merit in the relators' contention that the defendants were somehow bound by an interpretation of Iowa Code section 147.136 that the State of Iowa relied on in that trial-court case against a Medicaid recipient's estate.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/30/2010
- Published 07/30/2010
Judges
- Morris S. Arnold
Court
- United States Eighth Circuit