{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-56-56-1003","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 56-1003","heading":"Medicaid fraud control unit - Creation - Status - Power","body":"and authority - Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Revolving Fund.\n\nA. There is hereby created within the Office of the Attorney\n\nGeneral, a Medicaid fraud control unit.\n\nB. The Medicaid fraud control unit shall be the state entity to\n\nwhich all cases of suspected Medicaid fraud shall be referred by the\n\nOklahoma Health Care Authority or its fiscal agents for the purposes\n\nof investigation, civil action, criminal action or referral to the\n\ndistrict attorney. Provided however, nothing contained in the\n\nOklahoma Medicaid Program Integrity Act shall prohibit the Oklahoma\n\nHealth Care Authority from investigating or additionally referring\n\nto other proper law enforcement agencies cases of suspected Medicaid\n\nfraud, nor the Attorney General from pursuing cases of suspected\n\nMedicaid fraud without a referral from the Oklahoma Health Care\n\nAuthority if there is credible evidence of fraud. The Oklahoma\n\nHealth Care Authority shall be authorized to require providers to\n\ndisplay information about how to report providers suspected of\n\nfraudulent activity relating to the Oklahoma Medicaid Program. The\n\nOklahoma Health Care Authority shall require that signs be posted in\n\nany and all locations where services provided by the Oklahoma\n\nMedicaid Program are delivered to Medicaid recipients. The sign\n\nshall make reference to the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud\n\nControl Unit hotline and provide the current phone number for the\n\nhotline, and shall be placed in a conspicuous location within a\n\nprovider’s office. The sign shall contain notification that all\n\nreports to the hotline may be filed anonymously by persons\n\nsuspecting fraudulent activity.\n\nC. 1. In carrying out these responsibilities, the Attorney\n\nGeneral shall have all the powers necessary to comply with federal\n\nlaws and regulations relative to the operation of a Medicaid fraud\n\nunit, the power to cross-designate assistant United States attorneys\n\nas assistant attorneys general, the power to investigate cases of\n\npatient abuse, the power to issue or cause to be issued subpoenas or\n\nother process in aid of investigations and prosecutions, the power\n\nto administer oaths and take sworn statements under penalty of\n\nperjury, the power to serve and execute in any county, search\n\nwarrants which relate to investigations authorized by the Oklahoma\n\nMedicaid Program Integrity Act and shall have all the powers of a\n\ndistrict attorney.\n\n2. Subpoenas ad testificandum or duces tecum issued pursuant to\n\nthe Oklahoma Medicaid Program Integrity Act may be served by the\n\nAttorney General, any peace officer, or any competent person over\n\neighteen (18) years of age, and may require attendance or production\n\nat any place in this state. A refusal to obey such subpoena, or\n\nwillful failure to appear, be sworn, testify, or produce records at\n\nthe place and time specified shall constitute contempt and shall be\n\nenforced by the district court of the county where issued or the\n\ncounty where served, at the election of the Attorney General, as if\n\nit was a contempt on that court.\n\nD. The Attorney General shall have authority to collect all\n\nfines, penalties, amounts of restitution, or interest accruing on\n\nany amount of restitution to be made and any penalties to be paid\n\nfrom and after default in the payment thereof levied pursuant to the\n\nprovisions of the Oklahoma Medicaid Program Integrity Act, the\n\nOklahoma Medicaid False Claims Act, or any other charge, cause of\n\naction, prelitigation settlement or other settlement which recovers\n\nmoney wrongfully paid by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority on a\n\nclaim submitted to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. However,\n\nthis subsection is not in any way intended to affect the contempt\n\npower of any court. Funds collected by the Attorney General\n\npursuant to this section shall be deposited as follows:\nother settlement which recovers\n\nmoney wrongfully paid by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority on a\n\nclaim submitted to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. However,\n\nthis subsection is not in any way intended to affect the contempt\n\npower of any court. Funds collected by the Attorney General\n\npursuant to this section shall be deposited as follows:\n\n1. Restitution recovered and interest thereon shall be returned\n\nto the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for deposit to the Oklahoma\n\nHealth Care Authority Medicaid Program Fund created pursuant to\n\nSection 5020 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n2. Costs of investigation, litigation, attorney fees, and other\n\nexpenses shall be retained by the Office of the Attorney General and\n\nshall be deposited in the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud\n\nRevolving Fund created pursuant to subsection E of this section; and\n\n3. Fines and penalties and other funds recovered and interest\n\nthereon shall be deposited in the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud\n\nRevolving Fund; provided, the balance in the Attorney General's\n\nMedicaid Fraud Revolving Fund shall not exceed an amount equal to\n\nfifty percent (50%) of the current-year budget for operating costs\n\nof the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Any funds exceeding that amount\n\nshall be deposited as follows:\n\na. seventy-five percent (75%) to the General Revenue\n\nFund, and\n\nb. twenty-five percent (25%) to the Attorney General's\n\nEvidence Fund created pursuant to Section 19 of Title\n\n74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.\n\nE. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving\n\nfund for the Office of the Attorney General, to be designated the\n\n\"Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Revolving Fund\". The fund shall\n\nbe a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and\n\nshall consist of any monies designated to the fund by law. All\n\nmonies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated\n\nand may be budgeted and expended by the Attorney General for\n\nactivities related to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Expenditures\n\nfrom said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State\n\nTreasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the\n\nDirector of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for\n\napproval and payment.","path":["OK Code","Title 56"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os56.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b229f9d588308a0865fa5e732fc95912478c729321a1e0498b17ceb6aca0883d","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-56-56-1002","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-56-56-1004"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}