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HB 1452 Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; appointment of sworn unit investigators to Unit, powers and duties.

Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Appointment of sworn unit investigators to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Allows the Attorney General to designate up to 30 persons in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as sworn unit investigators, sworn only to enforce the provisions of law related to the provision and receipt of medical assistance services in the Commonwealth. The bill defines sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers and specifies that sworn unit investigators will remain subject to the federal requirements authorizing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and are required to notify and request assistance from the State Police or the local law-enforcement agency in order to execute a search warrant issued for a place of abode.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Appointment of sworn unit investigators to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Allows the Attorney General to designate up to 30 persons in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as sworn unit investigators, sworn only to enforce the provisions of law related to the provision and receipt of medical assistance services in the Commonwealth. The bill defines sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers and specifies that sworn unit investigators will remain subject to the federal requirements authorizing State Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Appointment of sworn unit investigators to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Allows the Attorney General to designate up to 30 persons in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as sworn unit investigators, with the power to investigate allegations of (i) fraud in the State Medical Assistance Plan; (ii) abuse and neglect of adults; (iii) misappropriation of a patient's private funds while in the care and custody of others; and (iv) any criminal offense ancillary to such allegations. The bill defines sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers eligible for Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System benefits and allows the Attorney General or his designee to request that the Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services exempt a sworn unit investigator from compulsory minimum training standards for law enforcement officers on the basis of prior experience. The bill grants the Attorney General authority to issue identification and uniforms designating sworn unit investigators as law-enforcement officers, including use of the seal of the Commonwealth.