{"id":51,"date":"2007-03-27T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/03\/new_medicaid_whistleblower_law.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:56:25","slug":"new_medicaid_whistleblower_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_medicaid_whistleblower_law\/","title":{"rendered":"New Medicaid Whistleblower Law Passes House in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been writing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/state_fcas\/\">why states are passing their own whistleblower laws<\/a>, with qui tam provisions that are at least as effective as the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/the_whistleblower_statute_the_1\/\">False Claims Act<\/a>.  Georgia&#8217;s legislature took a giant step forward when its House of Representatives today passed the State False Medicaid Claims Act&#8211;by an overwhelming margin of 164-2!<\/p>\n<p>As we have mentioned before on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/new_state_qui_tam_whistleblowe\/\">whistleblower lawyer blog<\/a>, when the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss and approve the new whistleblower statute, two witnesses were invited to explain the new law: the Inspector General of the Department of Community Health, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qui-tam-litigation.com\/who-we-are.html\">whistleblower blog author<\/a>.   We at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qui-tam-litigation.com\/\">Finch McCranie, LLP<\/a> are proud to be part of this effort to protect taxpayer dollars in the Medicaid program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been writing about why states are passing their own whistleblower laws, with qui tam provisions that are at least as effective as the federal False Claims Act. Georgia&#8217;s legislature took a giant step forward when its House of Representatives today passed the State False Medicaid Claims Act&#8211;by an overwhelming margin of 164-2! 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