Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Rockey v. Ear Institute of Chicago, LLC
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 25, 2015No. 11 C 7258PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Opinion and Order
GARY FEINERMAN, United States District Judge
Having uncovered what she believed to be Medicare fraud, Holly Rockey brought *809this qui tam suit against her former employer and all nine of its doctors and audiologists (collectively, “Ear Institute Defendants”), as well as its billing contractor (“Trellis”), under the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. Doc. 102. Rockey also claims that the Ear Institute and its doctors fired her in retaliation for having exposed the alleged fraud, in violation of the FCA and Illinois law. Ibid. Eighteen months after…
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