( December 2, 2025, 2:20 PM EST) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 1 affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to a lab and its owners in a medical practice’s qui tam suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and similar state laws related to billing Medicare for alleged medically unnecessary urinary tract infection (UTI) testing, finding that the medical practice failed to show that the lab and its owners should have known the tests were not medically necessary....