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House approves state false-claims measure aimed at rooting out fraud
Summary
The House passed the Taxpayer Protection Against Fraud Act after extended debate over whistleblower incentives, guardrails for inadvertent billing errors and the law's impact on providers. The final vote was 136-67.
The Pennsylvania House passed the Taxpayer Protection Against Fraud Act on a 136-67 vote after hours of debate over how the law would treat inadvertent billing mistakes and protect whistleblowers.
Supporters said the bill creates a state-level mechanism mirroring the federal False Claims Act that will let the commonwealth recover funds lost to fraud and provide incentives for insiders to report wrongdoing. Representative Burns, majority chair of professional licensure, said the measure…
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