Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 30-40-6 - Failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party paymentA. Failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment consists of knowing failure by a medicaid provider to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] or the department's fiscal agent the amount of payment received from the department for services when the provider receives payment for the same services from a third party.B. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.C. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) but not more than five hundred dollars ($500) is guilty of a misdemeanor.D. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than five hundred dollars ($500) but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) is guilty of a fourth degree felony.E. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a third degree felony.F. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a second degree felony.Laws 1979, ch. 170, § 6; 1987, ch 121, § 15; 2006, ch. 29, § 21.