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      21-3852.   Medicaid fraud and abuse division in the office of the attorney general. (a) There is hereby created within the office of the attorney general a medicaid fraud and abuse division.

      (b)   The medicaid fraud and abuse division shall be the same entity to which all cases of suspected medicaid fraud shall be referred by the department of social and rehabilitation services, or its fiscal agent, for the purpose of investigation, criminal prosecution or referral to the district or county attorney for criminal prosecution.

      (c)   In carrying out these responsibilities, the attorney general shall have all the powers necessary to comply with the federal laws and regulations relative to the operation of the medicaid fraud and abuse division, the power to investigate, criminally prosecute violations of this act, the power to cross-designate assistant United States attorneys as assistant attorneys general, the power to issue, serve or cause to be issued or served subpoenas or other process in aid of investigations and prosecutions, the power to administer oaths and take sworn statements under penalty of perjury, the power to serve and execute in any county, search warrants which relate to investigations authorized by this act, and the powers of a district or county attorney.

      History:   L. 1996, ch. 267, § 9; July 1.