Task: Text Completion
Input (English): from making any payments to Medicare providers unless and until they have furnished such information as the Secretary may require, Columbia’s receipt of Medicare payments for each year after 1994 was the result of its false certifications of compliance because otherwise it would not have been permitted to participate or receive payments for each subsequent year and the government would not have paid to Columbia the money that is the basis of this suit. Equifax, 557 F.2d at 461 (identifying as a false claim a material misrepresentation knowingly made in order to qualify for a government contract, privilege, or service). Courts have found FCA violations based on comparable misrepresentations. United States v. Oakwood Downriver Medical Center, 687 F.Supp. 302, 303-04 (E.D.Mich.1988) (<HOLDING>); Hopper, 91 F.3d at 1266 (false certification 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that prior adjudication barred a claim that arose out of the same transactions and that could have been raised in prior suit (B) holding relator stated fca claim where defendants submitted annual cost reports that included a certification of compliance (C) holding that an fca claim arose out of defendants failure to disclose in its form 2552 cost reports the existence of prohibited transactions with related health care organizations (D) holding claim that negligent supervision caused assault was health care liability claim because it was inseparable from the health care and nursing services provided (E) holding that the disclosure of billing invoices and cost reports were neither allegations of fraud nor fraudulent transactions
Output (English): (C)