( June 30, 2026, 2:48 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge on June 29 dismissed with prejudice relators’ qui tam suit alleging that a fiscal agent for Rhode Island’s Medicaid program violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by facilitating a scheme by a Rhode Island state hospital to submit false and inflated Medicaid bills for reimbursement, finding that the relators did not adequately plead scienter and failed to allege that the agent “knowingly” caused the submission of the hospital’s false claims....