A federal judge says she may toss out a whistleblower lawsuit that claims hospice provider AseraCarefraudulently billed Medicare millions of dollars for patients unless the U.S. Department of Justice can provide more evidence than a mere difference of opinion between medical experts.Hospice patients must be certified by doctors to be within six months of dying, if their disease runs its normal course, in order to qualify for federal Medicare hospice benefits. The whistleblower lawsuit claims … [Read more...] about $200 million at stake: Judge may dismiss whistleblower lawsuit against AseraCare hospice