Eleventh Circuit Says Whistleblower's Suit Should Never Have Been Heard

On November 8, 2016, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision in U.S. ex rel. Saldivar v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., remanding the case for entry of an order dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction based on the False Claims Act's (FCA) pre-2010 public disclosure bar.

We previously posted about the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia's October 30, 2015, decision granting Fresenius' motion for summary judgment. As a reminder, relator Chester Saldivar alleged that Fresenius violated the FCA by billing the government for the "overfill" in medication vials, which is the extra medication included to facilitate the extraction of the amount labeled on the vial.