Legal Opinion
United States v. Halifax Hospital Medical Center
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided February 6, 2014No. Case No. 6:09-cv-1002-Orl-31TBSPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order
GREGORY A. PRESNELL, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on the Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings *1274(Doc. 496) filed by the Defendants (henceforth, collectively, “Halifax”) and the responses thereto (Doc. 505, 511) filed by the Plaintiffs.
I. Background
In this matter, the Relator, Elin Baklid-Kunz, alleges that the Defendants violated the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 (henceforth, the “FCA”), by overbill-ing Medicare. The FCA permits a private person — a relator- — -to bring a qui tam action “for the person and for the United States Government” against the…
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