Date: 04/19/2012

Final
BILL SUMMARY for SB12-060

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Moved to refer Senate Bill 12-060 to the CommitteePASS



06:09 PM -- Senate Bill 12-060

Representative Summers announced that Senate Bill 12-161, concerning measures to reduce health care costs in correctional facilities, is laid over until the committee meeting on Tuesday, April 24.

Representative Gerou presented Senate Bill 12-060, concerning improving Medicaid fraud prosecution. The bill requires the Departments of Health Care Policy and Financing and Law to prepare annual reports on Medicaid client and provider fraud, respectively, for certain legislative committees. The reports are to detail the number of Medicaid client and provider fraud investigations, actions undertaken to make recoveries and prosecute fraud, amounts recovered, trends in methods used to commit Medicaid fraud, and policies adopted by the state and county to detect and prevent Medicaid fraud. The bill also specifies that recoveries of fraudulently obtained Medicaid benefits are to be deposited in the County Social Services Fund, and any amounts not required to be reimbursed to the federal government for a share proportional to the amount of federal funds initially paid may be retained by the county. Representative Acree made comments on the bill.


06:14 PM -- Sam Polizzotto, Colorado Alliance of Retired Americans, testified in support of the bill.


06:15 PM -- Timothy Sokas, Attorney General's Office, testified in support of the bill. He explained how much money the Attorney General has recovered through the Medicaid Fraud Unit. Mr. Sokas responded to questions about the costs of the Medicaid Fraud Unit.


06:17 PM -- Gini Pingenot, Colorado Counties, Inc., and Janet Sullivan, Jefferson County Department of Human Services, testified in support of the bill.


BILL:SB12-060
TIME: 06:19:24 PM
MOVED:McCann
MOTION:Moved to refer Senate Bill 12-060 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0, with 2 members excused.
SECONDED:Summers
VOTE
Bradford
Excused
Brown
Yes
Fields
Yes
Joshi
Yes
Kefalas
Yes
Kerr J.
Yes
Massey
Yes
McCann
Yes
Peniston
Yes
Schafer S.
Excused
Young
Yes
Acree
Yes
Summers
Yes
YES: 11 NO: 0 EXC: 2 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS




06:20 PM

The committee adjourned.