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The District of Nevada on Tuesday dismissed a False Claims Act (FCA) complaint against a group of hospitals, finding that the relator’s case lacks the required specificity. The court did, however, grant the relator leave to amend some of his pleadings for the third time.
Physician Tali Arik, a former employee of the defendants’ hospital network, brought the qui tam suit against DVH Hospital Alliance LLC, Valley Health Systems LLC, Universal Health Services Inc., Vista Health Mirza, MD P.C., and physician Irfan Mirza, over allegations that the defendants operated a conspiratorial scheme to fraudulently bill federal health care programs for medically unnecessary services. The defendants moved to dismiss the case, claiming that Arik failed to meet the standard of particularity for the FCA and conspiracy allegations and, instead, that Arik simply disagreed with the hospitals’ “treatment plans, hospitalization decisions, and diagnoses.”