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The health care industry is adjusting to major changes to the nation’s major “whistleblower” law, the False Claims Act<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Both in 2009 and 2010, Congress has removed obstacles to whistleblowers’ use of this anti-fraud statute to address Medicare and Medicaid fraud, as well as fraud affecting every other federal program. As we have written about previously, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (“FERA”) <\/a>overruled key judicial decisions that had undermined the the False Claims Act’s effectiveness. <\/p>\n

This year, the landmark health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”),<\/a> limited the FCA’s “public disclosure” bar, including by allowing the government to prevent dismissal of cases that it believes should proceed. <\/p>\n

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