UNITED STATES EX REL. BRYANT v. COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS

No. 20-5460 Nos. 20-5462/20-5469 No. 20-5463, No. 20-5637.

24 F.4th 1024 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America EX REL. Kathleen A BRYANT, Relator-Appellant, v. COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC.; Heritage Medical Center, Defendants-Appellees. United States of America ex rel. James Doghramji, Sheree Cook, and Rachel Bryant, Relators-Appellants, v. Community Health Systems, Inc. et al., Defendants-Appellees. United States of America ex rel. Nancy Reuille, Relator-Appellant, v. Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation et al., Defendants-Appellees. United States of America ex rel. Amy Cook-Reska, Relator-Appellant, v. Community Health Systems, Inc. et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: January 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David W. Garrison , BARRETT JOHNSTON MARTIN & GARRISON, LLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants James Doghramji, Sheree Cook, and Rachel Bryant. Patrick J. O'Connell , LAW OFFICES OF PATRICK J. O'CONNELL PLLC, Austin, Texas, for Appellants Nancy Reuille and Amy Cook-Reska. Michael L. Waldman , ROBBINS, RUSSELL, ENGLERT, ORSECK, UNTEREINER, & SAUBER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Community Health Systems, Inc. et al. ON BRIEF: David W. Garrison , Seth M. Hyatt , BARRETT JOHNSTON MARTIN & GARRISON, LLC, Nashville, Tennessee, Daniel Berger , GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A., New York, New York, for Appellants James Doghramji, Sheree Cook, and Rachel Bryant. Patrick J. O'Connell , LAW OFFICES OF PATRICK J. O'CONNELL PLLC, Austin, Texas, for Appellants Nancy Reuille and Amy Cook-Reska. Michael L. Waldman , D. Hunter Smith , ROBBINS, RUSSELL, ENGLERT, ORSECK, UNTEREINER, & SAUBER LLP, Washington, D.C., William M. Outhier , RILEY, WARNOCK & JACOBSON, PLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees Community Health Systems, Inc. et al. Mitchell R. Kreindler , KREINDLER & ASSOCIATES, Houston, Texas, for Appellant Kathleen Bryant.

Before: MOORE, CLAY, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Various relators in these consolidated cases sued Community Health Systems ("CHS") and others, alleging that CHS submitted fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary hospital admissions to federal public-health insurance programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare. Relators' counsel performed thousands...

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