§ 5-55-113 - Reward for the detection and punishment of medicaid fraud.
5-55-113. Reward for the detection and punishment of medicaid fraud.
(a) The court may pay a person such sums, not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the aggregate penalty recovered, or in any case not more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), as the court may deem just, for information the person may have provided which led to detecting and bringing to trial and punishment a person guilty of violating the medicaid fraud laws.
(b) (1) Upon the disposition of any criminal action relating to a violation of this subchapter in which a penalty is recovered, the Attorney General may petition the court on behalf of a person who may have provided information that led to detecting and bringing to trial and punishment a person guilty of medicaid fraud to award the person in an amount commensurate with the quality and usefulness of the information determined by the court to have been provided, in accordance with the requirements of this subchapter.
(2) If the Attorney General elects not to petition the court on behalf of the person, the person may petition the court on his or her own behalf.
(c) Neither the state nor any defendant within the action is liable for expenses that a person incurs in bringing an action under this section.
(d) An employee or fiscal agents charged with the duty of referring or investigating a case of medicaid fraud who are employed by or contract with any governmental entity are not eligible to receive a reward under this section.