( April 17, 2026, 1:26 PM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge denied a motion for attorney fees filed by a cardiology practice in a qui tam suit alleging that the practice and physicians violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and related North Carolina law by billing government insurers for unnecessary cardiac catheterizations, finding the assertion by the United States and North Carolina that the defendants submitted false claims for procedures that were not medically necessary and with disregard for the truth “substantially justified.”...