Senate Bill No. 663
(By Senators Bowman and Sprouse)
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[Introduced February 19, 2007; referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on
Finance.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20, relating to
requiring the Bureau for Medical Services to conduct a
criminal background investigation on Medicaid provider
applicants and on existing Medicaid providers who have not
previously undergone a criminal background investigation
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§9-5-20. Criminal background investigations of Medicaid provider
applicants.
The Bureau for Medical Services shall conduct a criminal
background investigation on Medicaid provider applicants and on
existing Medicaid providers in the West Virginia Medicaid Program who have not previously undergone a criminal background
investigation to determine if the applicant or provider has been
charged, indicted or convicted of a crime that may have bearing on
the fitness of an applicant or provider to provide Medicaid
services. The background investigation must minimally include the
following:
(1) Fingerprinting of applicants and providers for submission
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal
history background check; and
(2) Review of any other readily accessible state or federal
criminal history records that may be pertinent to the background
investigation.
The Bureau of Medical Services shall propose rules for
legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article
three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to implement the
provisions of this section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau of
Medical Services to conduct a criminal background investigation on
Medicaid provider applicants and on existing Medicaid providers who
have not previously undergone a criminal background investigation.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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