The U.S. government has filed a statement of interest in a whistleblower suit alleging fraud from one of the largest private contractors for the multibillion-dollar Medicare Part D program, arguing the suit should not be dismissed.
Although it declined to intervene in the case earlier this year, the government said in its filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in no uncertain terms that its decision was not a comment on the merits of the allegations, brought under the False Claims Act. As part of former President George W. Bush’s overhaul of Medicare, Part D introduced prescription drug coverage to the government’s health care plan for the elderly. ”The United States remains the real party in interest in this matter, even though it has not intervened in this action. In addition, because the False Claims Act … is the United States’ primary tool used to prosecute fraud on the government, it has a keen interest in the development of the law in this area and in the correct application of that law in this and similar cases,” the government said in its statement.
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