131654P.pdf   08/29/2014  USA ex rel Susan Thayer  v.  Planned Parenthood
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1654
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - False Claims Act. In qui tam action alleging Planned 
   Parenthood submitted false or fraudulent claims for Medicaid 
   reimbursement, the district court erred in dismissing certain of 
   plaintiff's claims as she had pled sufficiently particularized facts to 
   support her allegations that defendant violated the False Claims Act by 
   filing claims for (1) unnecessary quantities of birth control pills, (2) 
   birth control bills dispensed without a prescription, (3) abortion-related 
   services, and (4) the full amount of services where a portion or all of 
   the charges had been paid by "'donations' Planned Parenthood coerced from 
   patients;" however, plaintiff's allegations that Planned Parenthood 
   violated the Act by causing other hospitals to unknowingly submit claims 
   for abortion-related services and by upcoding were not sufficiently pled 
   to satisfy Rule 9(b) and were properly dismissed; the courts' decision 
   that certain claims were sufficiently pled to meet Rule 9(b)'s 
   requirements should not be read as in any way expressing a view as to 
   whether they survive Planned Parenthood's Rule 12(b)(6) arguments, which 
   the district court did not address in light of its ruling that the 
   complaint was insufficient under Rule 9(b).