Supreme Court sends health care fraud claim case back to lower court
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an appeals court ruling that went against hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc. over whether it has to face a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the government in a case arising from a Massachusetts woman's death at a mental health facility.
As part of the 8-0 decision, the high court sent the case back to a lower court, saying the lawsuit could still go ahead. The court did not definitively decide whether the parents of Yarushka Rivera, who suffered a fatal seizure in 2009 at age 19, can pursue the lawsuit against the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company that they filed under the False Claims Act, a federal law that allows individuals to make claims that the federal government has been defrauded.
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