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Code · California · Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14107.12

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(a)The Department of Justice may pay, pursuant to subdivision (d), from funds recovered by the Department of Justice, and only to the extent that the money may be used for this purpose, a reward to any person who furnishes information leading to the recovery of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) of public funds paid for services or goods rendered under the Medi-Cal program due to an act or omission by an individual or entity from which recovery is sought and that is the basis of a conviction of a Medi-Cal provider of services or goods in violation of any statutory criminal prohibition within the jurisdiction of the Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse pursuant to Section 12528 of the Government Code.
(b)A reward shall not be paid for information under this section unless the information relates to the specific activities of a specific individual or entity, and specifies the time period during which the prohibited activities occurred.
(c)A reward shall not be paid under this section to a federal, state, or local public employee or any individual contracting with a state or local agency for information discovered by the employee during the course of their duties as a federal, state, or local agency employee or pursuant to a contract with that agency.
(d)The amount of a reward under this section shall be determined by the Department of Justice, and shall not exceed 10 percent of the restitution recovered or one thousand dollars ($1,000), whichever is less. A reward shall not be paid until all recoverable funds have been collected from the individual or entity convicted of a violation of statutory prohibitions listed in subdivision (a).
(e)A determination by the Department of Justice of the eligibility of an individual to receive a reward, the amount and appropriateness of a reward under this section, and the timing of the payment of the reward shall be deemed to be final and shall not be subject to administrative appeal or judicial review.
(f)Subject to subdivision (g), payments made under authority of this section shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for any Medi-Cal program, the CalWORKs program, the CalFresh program, the County Medical Services Program, and any other means-tested public benefit program for which California has authority to establish the rules for determining eligibility.
(g)The income disregard described in subdivision
(f)shall not be effective, with respect to an identified program, until the first day of the third month from the month in which any necessary federal approval is obtained. The income disregard provided for in subdivision
(f)shall only be implemented to the extent that federal financial participation is obtained.
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