Section 544.0258 - [Effective 4/1/2025] Memorandum Of Understanding For Assisting Attorney General Investigations Related To Medicaid(a) The commission and the attorney general shall enter into a memorandum of understanding under which the commission shall: (1) provide investigative support to the attorney general as required in connection with cases under Subchapter B, Chapter 36, Human Resources Code; and(2) assist in performing preliminary investigations and ongoing investigations for actions the attorney general prosecutes under Subchapter C, Chapter 36, Human Resources Code.(b) The memorandum of understanding must specify the type, scope, and format of the investigative support the commission provides to the attorney general.(c) The memorandum of understanding must ensure that barriers to direct fraud referrals to this state's Medicaid fraud control unit by Medicaid agencies or unreasonable impediments to communication between Medicaid agency employees and the Medicaid fraud control unit are not imposed. (Gov. Code, Sec. 531.104.)Tex. Gov't. Code § 544.0258
Added by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 1.01, eff. 4/1/2025.