( November 22, 2024, 5:48 PM EST) -- CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Tennessee federal judge denied in part a hospital and health system’s motion to amend an answer to a complaint to assert affirmative defenses in a qui tam suit accusing them of violating the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and a similar state law, finding that the defense of the FCA’s unconstitutionality pursuant to a recent ruling in a Florida federal court, “is plainly futile.”...