Section 400.610b - Recovery of costs by attorney general. - Michigan Statutes

THE MEDICAID FALSE CLAIM ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 72 of 1977

400.610b Recovery of costs by attorney general.

Sec. 10b.

(1) The attorney general may recover all costs this state incurs in the litigation and recovery of medicaid restitution under this act, including the cost of investigation and attorney fees. The attorney general shall retain the amount received for activities under this act, excluding amounts for restitution, court costs, and fines, not to exceed the amount of this state's funding match for the medicaid fraud control unit.

(2) The attorney general shall not retain amounts under this section until all the restitution awarded in the proceeding has been paid.

(3) Costs that the attorney general recovers in excess of the state's funding match for the medicaid fraud control unit shall be deposited in the Michigan medicaid benefits trust fund established in section 5 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.255.

History: Add. 2005, Act 337, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2006