November 23, 2016
The Sixth Circuit has thrown a wrench in a plan by whistleblowers to collect $2.65 million in attorneys' fees from Community Health Systems Inc. following a $98 million settlement of a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging inflated inpatient admissions, scrapping a lower court's ruling that the company waived the right to challenge the fee award.
March 14, 2016
Community Health Systems Inc. maintained to the Sixth Circuit Friday that it reserved the right to challenge successful whistleblowers' bid for $2.65 million in attorneys' fees following a $98 million False Claims Act settlement alleging inflated inpatient admissions, blasting arguments that it ever waived that right.
February 24, 2016
Whistleblowers in a $98 million False Claims Act settlement against Community Health Systems Inc. slammed the hospital group's fight in the Sixth Circuit to deny them $2.65 million in attorneys' fees, saying it's too late to renege on its agreement to pay.