Georgia Code
Article 7B - False Medicaid Claims
§ 49-4-168.2. Role of Attorney General in Pursuing Cases; Civil Actions by Private Persons; Special Procedures for Civil Actions by Private Persons; Limitation on Participation; Stay of Discovery; Receipt of Proceeds

unless the civil action is brought by the Attorney General or the person bringing the civil action is an original source of the information.
History. Code 1981, § 49-4-168.2 , enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 355, § 3/HB 551; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 49/SB 46; Ga. L. 2012, p. 127, § 2-1/HB 822; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79; Ga. L. 2014, p. 77, § 2/HB 973.
The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted “State of Georgia, by and through the Georgia Department of Community Health, for the purposes of operating, sustaining, protecting, and administering the Georgia Medicaid program” for “Indigent Care Trust Fund to be used for the purposes set forth in Code Section 31-8-154” in the fourth sentence of paragraph (i)(1) and in the third sentence of paragraph (i)(2); in subsection (j), deleted the introductory language and paragraphs (j)(1) and (j)(2), relating to certain civil actions and redesignated former paragraphs (j)(3) and (j)(4) as present subsections (j) and (k), respectively; inserted a comma following “refund” in subsection (k); and added subsection (l).
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “the Department of Community Health” for “the Georgia Department of Community Health” in the fourth sentence of paragraph (i)(1) and in the second sentence of paragraph (i)(2).
The 2014 amendment, effective April 15, 2014, substituted “legislative or other Georgia” for “congressional, legislative, or other state or federal” in subparagraph (l)(2)(B).

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