record or statement to get a false claim paid or approved by the government. Relator also alleges that Defendants made a false claim for Medicare payments based on false statements that the South-side Community Hospital was being closed in September 1993 when its operations were merely being moved to another location and continued under a different name. 4 . Specifically, the appellate court wrote,. 125 F.3d at 904, Defendants ask us to affirm parts of the district court's order of dismissal on grounds raised but not considered below. Although we may consider alternative grounds for upholding the district court’s decision, ... we decline to do so in this case, [citation omitted] 5 . United States ex rel. Riley v. St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, 982 F.Supp. 1261, 1263 (S.D.Tex.1997) (<HOLDING>). 6 . In a footnote, Defendants observe that
holding that courts use the standing doctrine to decide whether a particular plaintiff is properly situated to prosecute the action holding congress must unambiguously confer federal rights on the plaintiff holding that for the purposes of standing to bring an action to recover on a contract privity is established by proving the defendant was a party to an enforceable contract with either the plaintiff or a party who assigned its cause of action to the plaintiff holding that congress cannot consistent with the constitutional principles of the separation of powers confer standing on a qui tam plaintiff who has suffered no cognizable injury to allow that plaintiff to prosecute an fca action on the governments behalf holding that in order to establish standing a plaintiff must show 1 it has suffered an injury in fact  2 the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant and 3 it is likely as opposed to merely speculative that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision