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A new qui tam whistleblower law has cleared another hurdle toward passage. Georgia’s Senate Insurance and Labor Committee unanimously approved the new “State False Medicaid Claims Act”<\/a> this afternoon. As we have written about previously on this whistleblower lawyer blog<\/a>, the new whistleblower law has already passed the Georgia House.<\/p>\n

After an introduction by Senator Seth Harp, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Edward Lindsey, asked Inspector General Doug Colburn of the Department of Community Health and attorney Michael A. Sullivan<\/a> (co-author of this whistleblower lawyer blog<\/a>) of Finch McCranie, LLP<\/a> to join him in testifying about how the new whistleblower law would work. Rep. Lindsey explained the incentives that Congress has provided to states to enact their own qui tam whistleblower laws, and then asked Sullivan<\/a> to explain how the law would function.<\/p>\n

Sullivan<\/a> testified about the successes of the federal False Claims Act in not only recovering money from those who have defrauded the government, but also serving as a deterrent to those who might otherwise cheat the public. He explained how the funds recovered have increased dramatically since the 1986 Amendments that created the modern False Claims Act, especially in the health care area. Sullivan<\/a> also described other states’ successes with their own whistleblower statutes, as well as the strict review of state false claims statutes by the Office of Inspector General <\/a>of the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

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

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