United States v. Philip Robinson

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In this False Claims Act case, the jury returned a verdict in the government’s favor. Defendant moved for a new trial. The district court denied his motion, and he now challenges that denial. We affirm.

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From January 1, 2007, to January 31, 2012, Dr. Philip Robinson submitted more than 25,000 claims to Medicare seeking reimbursement for optometry services he provided to nursing home patients. Medicare reimbursed more than $1.4 million for those claims. The government then sued Robinson under the False Claims Act, alleging that many of the claims were for medically…