( January 12, 2026, 1:05 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 denied a petition for certiorari filed by physicians seeking review of a circuit court ruling affirming a lower court’s dismissal of their False Claims Act (FCA) suit alleging that a hospital and its parent company fraudulently submitted claims for payment to government insurers for emergency room patients who were boarded as inpatients but received allegedly deficient care in the ER before a bed was available for them....