A. Failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment consists of knowing failure by a medicaid provider to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] or the department's fiscal agent the amount of payment received from the department for services when the provider receives payment for the same services from a third party. B. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less is guilty of a petty misdemeanor. C. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) but not more than five hundred dollars ($500) is guilty of a misdemeanor. D. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than five hundred dollars ($500) but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) is guilty of a fourth degree felony. E. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department is more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a third degree felony. F. A medicaid provider who commits failure to reimburse the human services department [health care authority department] upon receipt of third party payment when the value of the payment made by the department exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a second degree felony. History: Laws 1979, ch. 170, § 6; 1987, ch 121, § 15; 2006, ch. 29, § 21. Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department. The 2006 amendment, effective July 1, 2006, increased the value of the payment in Subsection B from $100 to $250; increased the value of the payment in Subsection C from more than $100, but not more than $250, and to more than $250, but not more than $500; and increased the value of the payment in Subsection D from more than $250 to more than $500.
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