The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: United States of America v. Ernst & Young, LLP
January 5, 2004 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: United States of America v. Ernst & Young, LLP This action seeks damages and penalties under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3729-33, as amended, and the common law theories of payment by mistake and unjust enrichment as a result of causing the submission of over two hundred thousand claims for payment for outpatient clinical laboratory tests billed to the Medicare Program ("Medicare") for the period 1991 through and including 1997. This is an action by the United States to recover over nine . . .
