HB 232

Abstract

Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; recovery of fraudulentpayments; report. Directs the Attorney General to report annually(i) the number of investigations conducted of providers of medicalassistance services under the state plan for medical assistance alleged to have fraudulently obtained or attempted to obtain payments; (ii)the number of cases in which it is determined that a provider hasfraudulently obtained or attempted to obtain payments and the totalamount of any payments obtained or sought to be obtained; (iii) thenumber of cases in which the Attorney General sought to recover paymentsfraudulently obtained by a provider and the total amount of paymentsdetermined to have been made in such cases; (iv) the number of casesin which recovery of payments fraudulently obtained by a providerwas not sought and the total amount of payments determined to havebeen made in such cases; and (v) for each case in which recoveryof payments fraudulently obtained by a provider is sought, the totalamount of such payments and the amount of such payments actually recovered. Such report shall also be made available to the publicon a website maintained by the Office of the Attorney General.