( January 8, 2026, 4:23 PM EST) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas federal judge on Jan. 7 “overruled” a hospital’s motion for summary judgment in a suit asserting that it violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by retaliating against and terminating its former CEO, who alleged possible fraud related to the hospital overpaying several of its physicians, finding that there are issues of material fact regarding whether the hospital’s “articulated reasons” for terminating the former CEO were “pretextual.”...