The seven whistleblowers entitled to receive attorneys fees collaborated with federal prosecutors in a case against CHS over alleged improper hospital admissions.
CHS argued the attorneys fees were barred by the False Claims Act’s first-to-file and public disclosure rules, which preclude lawsuits based on information that has already been disclosed and those related to an existing whistleblower suit.
In reversing a decision by a Tennessee district court, the appellate court said the whistleblowers were entitled to attorneys fees because they each uncovered independent parts of a broad-reaching fraud case. Allowing the whistleblowers to recover fees encourages other whistleblowers to help the government in similar cases, the court said, according to Bloomberg Law.
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