Bannon Ex Rel. United States v. Edgewater Medical Center

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

INTRODUCTION

On April 29, 2004, Anne Bannon filed the fourth yersion of her qui tarn False Claims Act complaint. It came just two weeks after Judge Lindberg granted the motion of Edgewater Medical Center (“EMC”), to dismiss the second amended complaint for failure to plead fraud with the particularity required by Rule 9(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Like its predecessors, the third amended complaint alleged that the defendants knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid in violation of the False Claims Act…