Magistrate Orders Privilege Log Update In FCA Suit Over Medicare Advantage Fraud

( June 7, 2024, 10:59 AM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge granted in part Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers’ motion to compel discovery in a relator’s qui tam suit alleging that medical providers and the insurers violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by conspiring together to increase risk adjustment scores of MA patients to obtain more federal funding than was owed, finding that the relator must update her privilege log but denying the insurers’ request for production regarding specified nonprivileged documents....