In the six months since the Supreme Court's decision on implied certification and materiality in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, lower courts have begun to apply the Supreme Court's analysis to a variety of fact patterns and thus have begun to debate whether Escobar simply reaffirmed the prior understanding of materiality under the False Claims Act (FCA) or instead established a new, more rigorous test for materiality. 136 S. Ct. 1989 (June 16, 2016).
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