SB 17-295

Senate Bill 17-295 updates how Colorado reports on Medicaid fraud. It requires a single annual report from the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing that includes both client and provider fraud details, as well as cost and savings information. This report will now be sent to more legislative committees for better oversight. Since the bill has been signed, it is now law and these changes are in effect.

Official Summary

Joint Budget Committee. The bill updates the department of health care policy and financing's (state department) annual reporting on efforts to detect and prosecute medicaid client fraud and the attorney general's annual reporting on medicaid provider fraud. The bill requires the state department to annually submit a single, comprehensive report on client and provider fraud in the medicaid program, including information received annually from the attorney general. The bill adds the joint budget committee to the legislative committees receiving the report and requires that the report include additional cost and savings information. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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