{"id":231,"date":"2009-09-26T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2009\/09\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:48:55","slug":"health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the “Advanced Health Law” seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new amendments to the False Claims Act<\/a>. I am honored to be the panelist who will discuss these important new provisions from the perspective of representing whistleblowers (known as “relators”) who bring qui tam<\/em> whistleblower cases under the False Claims Act. <\/p>\n

These significant changes to the False Claims Act took effect on May 20, 2009, when the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 <\/a>became law. Among the most important changes, Congress corrected and clarified the False Claims Act by legislatively overruling certain court decisions that sought to limit the scope of the Act, including Allison Engine Co. v. United States ex rel. Sanders<\/em>, 128 S. Ct. 2123 (2008); United States ex rel. Totten v. Bombardier Corp<\/em>., 380 F.3d 488 (D.C. Cir. 2004), cert. denied<\/em>, 544 U.S. 1032 (2005); and United States ex rel. DRC, Inc. v. Custer Battles, LLC<\/em>, 376 F. Supp. 2d 617 (E.D. Va. 2005), rev’d<\/em>, 562 F.3d 295 (4th Cir. 2009). <\/p>\n

The False Claims Act, as amended, now has these provisions:<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the “Advanced Health Law” seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new amendments to the False Claims Act. I am honored to be the panelist who will discuss these important new provisions from the perspective of representing whistleblowers (known as “relators”) who bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-claims-act","category-health-care-fraud","category-medicare-and-medicaid-fraud","category-pharmaceutical-fraud","category-state-false-claims-acts"],"yoast_head":"\nHealth Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — September 26, 2009<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At the "Advanced Health Law" seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new — September 26, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — September 26, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"At the "Advanced Health Law" seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new — September 26, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Sullivan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — September 26, 2009","description":"At the \"Advanced Health Law\" seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new — September 26, 2009","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — September 26, 2009","twitter_description":"At the \"Advanced Health Law\" seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new — September 26, 2009","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Sullivan","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Sullivan","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f"},"headline":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act","datePublished":"2009-09-26T06:33:27+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-11T21:48:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/"},"wordCount":547,"articleSection":["False Claims Act","Health Care Fraud","Medicare and Medicaid Fraud","Pharmaceutical Fraud","State False Claims Acts"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/","name":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — September 26, 2009","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-09-26T06:33:27+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-11T21:48:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f"},"description":"At the \"Advanced Health Law\" seminar on October 9, attorneys prosecuting and defending cases of alleged health care fraud will discuss the important new — September 26, 2009","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/health_care_fraud_lawyers_to_a\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Health Care Fraud Lawyers to Analyze Recent Amendments to False Claims Act"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/","name":"Whistleblower Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Whistleblower Attorneys \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f","name":"Michael Sullivan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Sullivan"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/michael-a-sullivan.html"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}