HB416 Alabama 2012 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Health Insurance, unlawful to make false statement in a claim for medical benefits to be paid by state agencies that administer state or federally funded health care programs, unlawful to refer individual for service subject to reimbursement or solicit or receive remuneration for purchasing, leasing, ordering or arranging for or recommending purchashing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service or item for which payment may be made by state or federally funded health care program, Sec. 22-1-11 am'd

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, it is unlawful to make a false statement or representation of material fact in any claim or application for payments on medical benefits from the Medicaid Agency. It is also unlawful for any person to solicit or receive remuneration for referring an individual for a service subject to reimbursement or for purchasing, leasing, ordering, or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service, or item for which payment may be made in whole or in part by the Medicaid Agency or its agents</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would make unlawful a false statement in a claim for medical benefits from other state agencies that administer a state or federally funded, or both, health care program</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would make it unlawful for any person to solicit or receive remuneration for referring an individual for a service subject to reimbursement or for purchasing, leasing, ordering, or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service, or item for which payment may be made in whole or in part by a state agency that administers a state or federally funded, or both, health care program</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 22-1-11, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to Medicaid fraud; to make unlawful a false statement in a claim for medical benefits from other state agencies that administer state or federally funded, or both, health care programs; and to make it unlawful for any person to solicit or receive remuneration for referring an individual for a service subject to reimbursement or for purchasing, leasing, ordering, or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service, or item for which payment may be made in whole or in part by a state agency that administers a state or federally funded, or both, health care program. </p>

Subjects

Health Insurance