Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to revise duties and penalties regarding the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

This legislation amends the Medicaid provider fraud statutes to set the punishment for provider fraud at a maximum of 15 years, allow for the recovery of prosecution and investigation costs, authorize the Attorney General or his designee to sign subpoenas, permit the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to investigate a wider range of provider fraud so long as it has a nexus to Medicaid, and clean up the statutory language as to the elements of the crime. The purpose of this legislation is to bring the provider fraud statute more in line with Idaho’s insurance fraud statute and federal regulations and to enable Idaho’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to operate more efficiently.