{"id":94,"date":"2007-09-08T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/09\/trend_of_new_state_false_claim.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:53:54","slug":"trend_of_new_state_false_claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/trend_of_new_state_false_claim\/","title":{"rendered":"New State False Claims Act Trend Is Evaluated at Southeastern Health Care Fraud Conference in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I enjoyed leading a panel discussion of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/state_fcas\/\">State False Claims Acts<\/a>, at the Southeastern Health Care Fraud Conference in Atlanta. Of particular interest to this audience was the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/new_whistleblower_law_on_medic_1\/\">Georgia State False Medicaid Claims Act<\/a> that became law in May 2007, which has qui tam whistleblower provisions similar to the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/introduction_to_the_false_clai_1\/\">False Claims Act.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our audience of health care attorneys heard a detailed account of Florida&#8217;s successes with its State False Claims Act by Mark S. Thomas, the Chief of Staff and Special Counsel of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.  We also learned how the Georgia Attorney General&#8217;s Office plans to implement the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/new_medicaid_false_claims_act\/#more\">State False Medicaid Claims Act <\/a>in remarks by Charles M. Richards, Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Georgia State Health Care Fraud Control Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Other excellent presentations were made in this <a href=\"http:\/\/iclega.org\/programs\/6621.html\">seminar<\/a> organized by my friends Steve Cowen of King &amp; Spalding, LLP, and Joe Whitley of Alston &amp; Bird, LLP.  I am grateful to Joe and Steve for the opportunity to participate and explain the False Claims Act, the new Georgia State False Medicaid Claims Act and other state False Claims Acts, some of which have added interesting new wrinkles to health care compliance, by creating new theories of liability not found in the federal Act. 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