| TO: | Honorable Dianne White Delisi, Chair, House Committee on Public Health |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB3418 by Gonzalez Toureilles (Relating to audits of providers in the medical assistance program. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend Human Resources Code, Subchapter B, Chapter 32, by adding section 32.070, Audits of Providers. The bill would require the Health and Human Services executive commissioner to adopt rules governing the audit of providers in the medical assistance program.
The bill would not apply to a computerized audit conducted using the Medicaid Fraud Detection Audit system or an audit or investigation of fraud and abuse conducted by the Medicaid fraud control unit of the office of the attorney general, the office of the state auditor, the office of the inspector general, or the office of inspector general in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The bill would take effect September 1, 2005.
The Health and Human Services Commission states that the cost of amending rules and implementing the changes would not have a signficant cost.
| Source Agencies: | 302 Office of the Attorney General, 529 Health and Human Services Commission
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, KF, MB, CL, PP
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