As used in the Oklahoma Medicaid Program Integrity Act:

1. "Authority" means the Oklahoma Health Care Authority;

2. "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of this state, his employees or his authorized representatives;

3. "Claim" means a communication, including written, electronic, or magnetic, which is utilized to identify a good, item, or service as reimbursable pursuant to the Oklahoma Medicaid Program, or which states income or expense and is or may be used to determine a rate of payment pursuant to the Oklahoma Medicaid Program; and any application for payment by any person from the Oklahoma Medicaid Program or its fiscal agents for each good or service purported by any person to have been provided by any person to any Medicaid recipient;

4. "Fiscal agents" means any individual, firm, corporation, professional association, partnership, organization, or other legal entity which, through a contractual relationship with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority and, thereby, the State of Oklahoma, receives, processes, and pays claims under the Oklahoma Medicaid Program;

5. "Kickback" means a return in any form by any individual, company, corporation, partnership, or association of a part of an expenditure made by a provider:

a.to the same provider,

b.to an entity controlled by the provider or,

c.to an entity which the provider intends to benefit whenever such expenditure is reimbursed, or reimbursable, or claimed by a provider as being reimbursable by the Oklahoma Medicaid Program and when the sum or value returned is not credited to the benefit of the Oklahoma Medicaid Program;

6. "Medicaid recipient" means any individual in whose behalf any person claimed or received any payment or payments from the Oklahoma Medicaid Program or its fiscal agents, whether or not any such individual was eligible for benefits under the Oklahoma Medicaid Program;

7. "Oklahoma Medicaid Program" means the state program administered by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, which provides for payments for medical goods or services on behalf of indigent families with dependent children and of aged, blind, or disabled individuals whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the cost of necessary medical services;

8. "Person" means any Medicaid provider of goods or services or any employee of such provider, whether that provider is an individual, individual medical vendor, firm, corporation, professional association, partnership, organization, or other legal entity under the Oklahoma Medicaid Program, or any individual, individual medical vendor, firm, corporation, professional association, partnership, organization, other legal entity, or any employee of such who is not a provider under the Oklahoma Medicaid Program but who provides goods or services to a provider under the Oklahoma Medicaid Program for which the provider submits claims to the Oklahoma Medicaid Program or its fiscal agents;

9. "Provider" means any person who has applied to participate or who participates in the Oklahoma Medicaid Program as a supplier of a good or a service;

10. "Records" means all medical, professional, or business records or documents relating to the treatment or care of any recipient, or to a good or a service provided to any such recipient, or to rates or amounts paid or claimed for such a good or a service including but not limited to records of non-Medicaid goods or services to verify rates or amounts; and any records required to be kept by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to be kept by any person; and

11. "Sign" means to affix a signature directly or indirectly by means of handwriting, typewriter, signature stamp, computer impulse, or other means recognized by Oklahoma Law.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 220, § 2, operative July 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 144, § 1, emerg. eff. May 1, 1990; Laws 1995, c. 306, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995.