KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Various relators in these consolidated cases sued Community Health Systems (“CHS”) and others, alleging that CHS submitted fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary hospital admissions to federal public-health insurance programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare. Relators’ counsel performed thousands of hours work in assisting the government with the investigation. Seven years ago, the relators, the government, and CHS entered into a settlement agreement, disposing of the underlying claims in the cases. The settlement agreement left undecided the allocation of attorney fees under the relevant provision of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(d). After settling with all Nos. 20-5460/5462/5463/5469/5637 United States ex rel., Bryant et al. Page 3 the relators, CHS now claims that the relators are not entitled to attorney fees because the FCA’s first-to-file rule and public-disclosure bar precluded their claims. The district court agreed with CHS.

We hold that CHS cannot now rely on these separate provisions of the FCA as a last-ditch effort to deny attorney fees to the relators. After the global settlement reached pursuant to a collaborative process between the government and relators’ counsel, we see no reason to apply the first-to-file and public-disclosure rules. We REVERSE the district court’s judgment and REMAND with instructions to the district court to determine an award of reasonable attorney fees to relators’ counsel.