68-973 Improper payments; postpayment reimbursement; legislative findings.

NE Code § 68-973 (2019) (N/A)

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68-973. Improper payments; postpayment reimbursement; legislative findings.

The Legislature finds that the medical assistance program would benefit from increased efforts to (1) prevent improper payments to service providers, including, but not limited to, enforcement of eligibility criteria for recipients of benefits, enforcement of enrollment criteria for providers of benefits, determination of third-party liability for benefits, review of claims for benefits prior to payment, and identification of the extent and cause of improper payment, (2) identify and recoup improper payments, including, but not limited to, identification and investigation of questionable payments for benefits, administrative recoupment of payments for benefits, and referral of cases of fraud to the state medicaid fraud control unit for prosecution, and (3) collect postpayment reimbursement, including, but not limited to, maximizing prescribed drug rebates and maximizing recoveries from estates for paid benefits.

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