391.095 Program integrity.The department shall operate a system to oversee the activities of Children’s Medical Services program participants, and health care providers and their representatives, to prevent fraudulent and abusive behavior, overutilization and duplicative utilization, and neglect of participants and to recover overpayments as appropriate. For the purposes of this section, the terms “abuse” and “fraud” have the meanings provided in s. 409.913. The department shall refer incidents of suspected fraud and abuse, and overutilization and duplicative utilization, to the appropriate regulatory agency.
History.s. 17, ch. 98-288.