Nebraska High Court Reverses Judgment For Ex-Employee In Medicare Fraud Dispute

( May 12, 2025, 1:15 PM EDT) -- LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Supreme Court on May 9 reversed and remanded a judgment for a former employee in her suit alleging that she was terminated because she intended to cooperate with a federal investigation into her former employer’s alleged improper upcoding of Medicare charges, finding that the lower court should have granted the employer’s motion for a directed verdict because there is no cause of action for wrongful termination in violation of public policy when the statute on which the policy is based, the federal False Claims Act (FCA), has its own remedy....

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