( August 26, 2025, 2:31 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana federal judge on Aug. 25 denied, granted and granted in part motions to dismiss a qui tam relator’s suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and similar state law related to medical providers’ purported submission of false claims for payment to government insurers for wound care services, denying dismissal of the complaint as unconstitutional; the judge said he “declines the invitation” by the defendants to overturn “binding precedent” establishing the constitutionality of the FCA....