( September 1, 2026, 11:50 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s dismissal of a reverse false claim and remanded for further proceedings but affirmed a lower court’s judgment dismissing direct false claims in a relator’s suit alleging that a pharmacy services provider overcharged certain government health care programs in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA) and related state law, finding that the relator failed to satisfy the specificity required regarding the direct claims but sufficiently alleged a reverse false claim....