United States Ex Rel. Kneepkins v. Gambro Healthcare, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O’TOOLE, District Judge.

The government’s complaint asserts that predecessor corporations of the three named defendants, Gambro Healthcare, Inc., Dialysis Holdings, Inc., and Transitional Hospitals Corporation, Inc., engineered a scheme to defraud Medicare by performing unnecessary and wasteful blood tests at a medical testing laboratory in Smyrna, Georgia. 1 Three of the seven counts arise under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729(a)(1), (2), and (3);' the other four assert common law claims for fraud, payment by mistake of fact, unjust enrichment, and disgorgement of…