Revisiting The FCA Public Disclosure Bar, Post-Bellevue

By Gerald Meyer and Emily Damrau ( December 18, 2017, 3:45 PM EST) -- The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in Bellevue v. Universal Health Services of Hartgrove Inc. , 867 F. 3d 712 (7th Cir. 2017), has potentially wide-ranging implications for qui tam suits under the False Claims Act. In Bellevue, the court concluded that a relator's allegations were substantially similar to publicly disclosed allegations and that the suit was therefore precluded by the public disclosure bar even though the relator's allegations concerned an entirely different time period than the publicly disclosed information. . . .

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