Georgia Code
Article 7B - False Medicaid Claims
§ 49-4-168. Definitions

As used in this article, the term:
History. Code 1981, § 49-4-168 , enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 355, § 3/HB 551; Ga. L. 2012, p. 127, § 2-1/HB 822; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79.
The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, in the first sentence of paragraph (1), substituted “money or property, whether or not the Georgia Medicaid program or this state has title to such money or property” for “money, property, or services”, deleted “or” following “Georgia Medicaid program,”, inserted “, agent,” inserted “, has provided,”, substituted “demanded; if” for “demanded, or if”, and added “; or if the money or property is to be spent or used on behalf of or to advance the Georgia Medicaid program” at the end; substituted “requires no proof of specific intent to defraud and means” for “mean” in the introductory paragraph of paragraph (2); deleted the former second sentence of subparagraph (2)(C), which read: “No proof of specific intent to defraud is required.”; added paragraphs (3) and (4); and redesignated former paragraph (3) as present paragraph (5).
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language in paragraph (2).
Cross references.
Georgia Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act, § 23-3-120 et seq.
Law reviews.
For article, “A ‘False Claims Act’ Is Finally Enacted in Georgia: What Georgia Lawyers Should Know About the ‘State False Medicaid Claims Act’,” see 13 Ga. St. B.J. 12 (2007).

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