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Report on Unauthorized Use of Medical Assistance
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- Office of the Inspector General, Healthcare and Family Services Report on Unauthorized Use of Medical Assistance (2012CivilRemediesReport.pdf)
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.1 I. Legislative and Rulemaking History In July 1994, the General Assembly established the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") for the Department of Healthcare and Family Services ("the Department") (Public Act 88-554). The OIG's mission is to prevent, detect, and eliminate fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement, and misconduct in programs administered by the Department The Inspector General has general oversight responsibilities over the Department's integrity functions, which include investigating fraud or intentional program violations committed by program recipients. The Illinois Medicaid Reform Law ( P.A. 096-1501) was signed into law in January 2011. The program integrity section of the Medicaid Reform Law, located at ILCS 5/8A-2.5, authorizes the OIG to seek to recover any and all Stat and federal monies for which it has improperly and erroneously paid benefits as result of fraudulent action, as well as authorized civil penalties. In September 2011, the Department filed its propos
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- Date Accepted Into Depository: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:41:22 UTC
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- contactCity: Springfield
- contactOrganization: Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
- contactPhoneNumber: 217-782-1200
- contactState: IL
- contactZipCode: 62763
- dateCreated: 07 31 2012
- dateLastModified: 07 31 2012
- description: Since the Illinois Medicaid Reform Law was signed into law in January 2011, the OIGs Bureau of Investigations (BOI) and attorneys from the OIGs Bureau of Administrative Litigation (BAL) have aggressively pursued identification and recovery of improperly and erroneously paid benefits as a result of fraudulent action. The following is a summary of the combined effort:
- govType: State
- language: EN-English
- originatorDepartment: Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services
- originatorJurisdiction: Illinois
- originatorOffice: Illinois
- volumeOrYear: 2012