UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ex rel. GURPREET MAUR, M.D. v. ELIE HAGE-KORBAN; DELTA CLINICS, PLC, dba The Heart and Vascular Center of West Tennessee; KNOXVILLE HMA HOLDINGS, LLC, dba Tennova Healthcare; JACKSON HOSPITAL CORPORATION, dba Regional Hospital of Jackson; DYERSBURG HOSPITAL COMPANY, LLC, dba Dyersburg Regional Medical Center - Articles

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ex rel. GURPREET MAUR, M.D. v. ELIE HAGE-KORBAN; DELTA CLINICS, PLC, dba The Heart and Vascular Center of West Tennessee; KNOXVILLE HMA HOLDINGS, LLC, dba Tennova Healthcare; JACKSON HOSPITAL CORPORATION, dba Regional Hospital of Jackson; DYERSBURG HOSPITAL COMPANY, LLC, dba Dyersburg Regional Medical Center

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Dec 1, 2020

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ARGUED: Shelby Serig, MORGAN & MORGAN P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ARGUED: Jeffrey Scott Newton, BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC, Jackson, Mississippi, for Appellees Elie Hage-Korban and Delta Clinics. Brian D. Roark, BASS, BERRY & SIMS PLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees Knoxville HMA Holdings and Dyersburg Hospital Company.

Attorneys 3: ON BRIEF: Shelby Serig, MORGAN & MORGAN P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellant.

Attorneys 4: ON BRIEF: Shelby Serig, MORGAN & MORGAN P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, for Appellant. Jeffrey Scott Newton, Micahel Thomas Dawkins, Joseph Lott Warren, BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, PC, Jackson, Mississippi, for Appellees Elie Hage-Korban and Delta Clinics. Brian D. Roark, BASS, BERRY & SIMS PLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees Knoxville HMA Holdings and Dyersburg Hospital Company.

Attorneys 5: David J. Chizewer, GOLDBERG KOHN LTD., Chicago, Illinois, for Amicus Curiae.

Judge(s): SILER, SUTTON, and LARSEN, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee at Jackson

LARSEN, Circuit Judge. In this qui tam action, Dr. Gurpreet Maur accuses Dr. Elie Hage-Korban (“Korban”) of submitting false claims to Medicare for unnecessary cardiac testing and procedures, in alleged violation of the False Claims Act (FCA). See 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1)(A)–(C), (G). The district court dismissed Maur’s complaint pursuant to the FCA’s public-disclosure bar, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4). Because we conclude Maur’s allegations are “substantially the same” as those exposed in a prior qui tam action and Maur is not an “original source” as defined in the FCA, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal.

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