Definitions

As used in the Medicaid False Claims Act: A. "claim" means a written or electronically submitted request for payment of health care services pursuant to the medicaid program; B. "department" or "authority" means the health care authority; C. "medicaid" means the federal-state program administered by the health care authority pursuant to Title 19 or Title 21 of the federal Social Security Act; D. "medicaid recipient" means a person on whose behalf a person claims or receives a payment from the medicaid program, regardless of whether the person was eligible for the medicaid program; and E. "qui tam" means an action brought under a statute that allows a private person to sue for a recovery, part of which the state will receive. History: Laws 2004, ch. 49, § 3; 2024, ch. 39, § 119.