Julie Keeton Bracker, Partner, Bracker & Marcus LLC to Speak at the Knowledge Group’s Webcast

NEW YORK - Jan. 20, 2016 - PRLog -- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Julie Keeton Bracker, Partner, Bracker & Marcus LLC will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “Enhanced State False Claims Act Enforcement in 2016 LIVE Webcast.”  This event is scheduled for January 12, 2016 @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET.

For further details, please visit:

http://theknowledgegroup.org/event_name/enhanced-state-false-claims-act-enforcement-in-2016-live-webcast/

About Julie Keeton Bracker

For more than a decade, JULIE KEETON BRACKER has focused her practice exclusively on the qui tam and retaliation provisions of federal and state False Claims Acts, returning more than 80 million dollars back to the taxpayers. She is a long time member of Taxpayers Against Fraud, the qui tam bar association, and has been selected to speak at the organization’s annual conference for the past three years. In addition, she has served on the Board of the National Employment Lawyer’s Association’s Georgia affiliate since 2012, and as President in 2014, was recently appointed to NELA- National’s Membership Committee, and is a nationally-recognized expert on issues of whistleblower retaliation. She also serves as the plaintiff’s bar representative to the Atlanta ESI Roundtable as faculty to the Sedona Conference on e-discovery, and is a member of Women in E-Discovery in Atlanta. As a result, she is also a frequent speaker and author on issues of data collection, preservation, and cooperation in electronic discovery.

About Bracker & Marcus LLC

From its office in metro Atlanta, Bracker & Marcus LLC litigates False Claims Act cases in courts across the country, devoting its entire practice to counseling and protecting whistleblowers. Partners Julie Bracker and Jason Marcus have worked together for seven years exclusively in the False Claims Act and related areas, and have developed a diverse practice of advising would-be whistleblowers on the viability of their claims and what other options are available to them, investigating and filing False Claims Act cases, working with the state and federal governments to develop sealed cases, litigating declined cases, and providing support to attorneys who are new to the FCA or who need local counsel in Georgia.

Event Synopsis:

In 1863, the Congress enacted the False Claims Act (FCA), or Lincoln’s Law, to enable the federal government to sue individuals for fraudulent sale of supplies to the Union Army. Since then, the scope of FCA has been expanded, especially in application to the health care industry.

Companies now face increasingly high liability under this statute. For example, in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that roughly 20% of all Medicare Part A skilled nursing facility claims were inflated to a higher 'RUG group' resulting in almost $1.2 billion in improper payments. Recently, another nursing home operator paid $48 Million to resolve allegations of fraudulent billing by 6 California facilities.

States have also passed their own False Claims Acts, to recover state (and in some cases, county and/or municipal) tax dollars as well. Most recently, in June 2015, Maryland expanded the scope of the Maryland False Claims Act (MFCA), previously limited to Medicaid and healthcare fraud, and now covering any claims made to the state or to local government. This follows similar enactments in Vermont and other states.

Relators and the government are pursuing and winning more complex FCA suits and are winning much more significant recoveries. Long term care providers and others need to be aware of the greatly increasing risk of serious legal and compliance challenges that will be upcoming.

In this two hour, LIVE Webcast, a panel of distinguished professionals, thought leaders, and practitioners assembled by The Knowledge Group will review and discuss the latest, significant aspects of Enhanced State False Claims Act Enforcement in 2016. In this LIVE Webcast, the speakers will help you avoid the most common pitfalls and risk relating to FCA compliance in health care provision.

Key issues that will be covered in this course are:

§  False Claims Act – Overview

§  Recent Litigation and Consequences

§  Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., et al. v. United States ex rel. Carter

§  State False Claims Qui tam Statutes

§  Reducing Potential Exposure to FCA Actions

§  Pertinence of Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act (WSLA)

§  Understanding First-to-file Bar

§  Litigation and Compliance Risks

§  Best Practices

About The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

The Knowledge Group was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register for an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/