71-5-125 - Duties of fiscal review committee. - Tennessee Statutes

71-5-125. Duties of fiscal review committee.

(a)  The fiscal review committee is directed to obtain the following information from the single state agency in charge of medicaid and the department of human services and report quarterly to the membership of the general assembly, except that if an item on the report has not changed from one (1) quarter to the next, there shall be no necessity to repeat this information in the subsequent report:

     (1)  All expenditures under the medicaid program in the preceding quarter;

     (2)  The quarterly allotment for the next quarter;

     (3)  Any requests for additional funds;

     (4)  The classifications set up for the staffing of the medicaid personnel;

     (5)  The names, salary, position and previous work experience of staff hired;

     (6)  Caseloads, increases and decreases;

     (7)  Dollar expenditures and utilization of the separate programs under medicaid; and

     (8)  Copies of all regulations issued to implement the medicaid program.

(b)  The fiscal review committee shall investigate any contracts between a TennCare managed care organization and a specific credentialing verification organization that are required to be made by the bureau of TennCare, and report its findings to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives.

[Acts 1969, ch. 326, § 7; impl. am. Acts 1975, ch. 219, § 1 (a, b); T.C.A., §§ 14-1926, 14-23-125; Acts 2002, c. 880, § 19.]