2025 Code of Georgia
Title 49 - Social Services (Chs. 1 — 10)
Chapter 4 - Public Assistance (Arts. 1 — 9)
Article 7B - False Medicaid Claims (§§ 49-4-168 — 49-4-168.6)

Annotations

Notes

Ga. L. 2007, p. 355, § 1/HB 551, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘State False Medicaid Claims Act.’”

Ga. L. 2007, p. 355, § 2/HB 551, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The General Assembly recognizes that the submission of false or fraudulent claims to the Georgia Medicaid program can and does cause the state treasury to incur serious financial losses which results in direct harm to the taxpayers of this state. This Act is intended to provide a partial remedy for this problem by providing specific procedures whereby this state, and private citizens acting for and on behalf of this state, may bring civil actions against persons and entities who have obtained state funds through the submission of false or fraudulent claims to state agencies. This Act, in its provision for double and sometimes treble damages, is remedial in purpose, and is intended not to punish, but insofar as possible to make the state treasury whole for both the direct and indirect losses caused by the submission of false or fraudulent claims resulting in payments by this state or state agencies. By receiving a portion of the recovery in civil actions brought under this article, ‘whistle blowers’ are encouraged to come forward when they have information about the submission of false claims to the Georgia Medicaid program, and rewarded when their initiative results in civil recoveries for this state.”

Research References & Practice Aids

O. C. G. A. Title 49

O. C. G. A. Title 49, Ch. 4