New Jersey Bar To Hold Program On New Jersey False Claims Act

          [Image: “Trenton Makes –  The World Takes,” by Bob Jagendorf, July 4, 2005]

       Although this blog aims to cover “the intersection of alternative dispute resolution and healthcare law,” it tends to focus on the ADR side of the street.  Permit me to briefly divert from that course to promote tomorrow night\’s program of the Health & Hospital Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association on the “new” New Jersey False Claims Act.  The program will be held at the NJSBA\’s Law Center in New Brunswick, with dinner starting at 6:00 p.m. (Thursday, September 25th).

       Entitled “New Jersey False Claims Act: Risk for Providers; Opportunities for Whistleblowers,” the program will feature Assistant Attorney General John Krayniak, who heads New Jersey\’s Medicaid fraud prosecution section, Marc Raspanti, a noted whistleblower\’s attorney, and Linda Eynon, in-house counsel for Horizon New Jersey Health, a Medicaid/NJ Family Care managed care organization.  These panelists are expected to amplify their discussion of the law with extensive lessons drawn from their personal “war stories.”

       This program is a must for healthcare lawyers practicing in New Jersey.  For those interested in the ADR angle, I plan to raise the potential use of ADR in this setting for discussion by the panelists.  It is worth noting that the AHLA is devoting an entire break-out session at their upcoming Fraud and Compliance Forum in Baltimore to “Negotiating the Resolution of Healthcare Fraud Allegations.”  The aforementioned Marc Raspanti is a scheduled panelist at that session as well.  I guess I just can\’t resist wandering over to the ADR side of the street.