( October 7, 2026, 8:33 AM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California federal judge denied dismissal motions in a relator’s qui tam suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) against physicians and a pain clinic for the purported submission of false claims to the government for reimbursement payments for Medicare urine drug tests, finding in part that the government sufficiently alleged inadequate documentation of medical necessity for the testing....