Mississippi Code
Article 3 - Medicaid
§ 43-13-131. Influencing recipient to elect particular provider or type of services for purpose of obtaining increase in benefits or payments; penalties

Any person who shall, through intentional misrepresentation, fraud, deceit or unlawful design, either acting individually or in concert with others, influence any recipient to elect any particular provider of services, or any particular type of services, for the purposes and with the intent to obtain or increase any benefit or payment under this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. This section shall not prohibit prosecution under any other criminal statutes of this state or the United States.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 43 - Public Welfare

Chapter 13 - Medical Assistance for the Aged; Medicaid

Article 3 - Medicaid

§ 43-13-101. Title of article

§ 43-13-103. Purpose

§ 43-13-105. Definitions

§ 43-13-107. Division of Medicaid created; director and other personnel; Medical Care Advisory Committee; Drug Use Review Board; Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

§ 43-13-109. Rules and regulations for procurement of employees

§ 43-13-111. Budgets of state health agencies

§ 43-13-113. Receipt and disbursement of funds; contingency plan; contracting for donated dental services program

§ 43-13-115. Persons entitled to receive Medicaid

§ 43-13-116. Authority to determine Medicaid eligibility; agreements with state and federal agencies; administrative hearings; authority to hire employees

§ 43-13-117. Types of care and services for which financial assistance furnished

§ 43-13-117.1. Nursing facility services funds for certain nursing facility residents may be transferred to cover costs of services available through home- and community-based waiver programs

§ 43-13-117.2. Study on implementation of pilot program to provide chronic disease management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

§ 43-13-117.4. Payment by Division of Medicaid of costs of care and services rendered by an entity that performs nontherapeutic abortions or maintains or operates or is affiliated with an entity that maintains or operates a facility where nontherapeu...

§ 43-13-117.5. Reimbursement for services provided eligible beneficiaries by licensed freestanding psychiatric hospital authorized

§ 43-13-118. Records of provider participating in Medicaid program

§ 43-13-121. Authority to administer article

§ 43-13-123. Methods of providing for payment of claims

§ 43-13-125. Recovery of Medicaid payments from third parties; compromise or settlement of claims; plaintiff's recovery of medical expenses as special damages; disposition of funds received

§ 43-13-126. Health insurers required to provide certain information to Division of Medicaid, accept Division's right of recovery and not deny claims submitted by Division on the basis of certain errors as condition of doing business in Mississippi

§ 43-13-129. Misrepresentation by applicant for benefits or by provider of services; penalty

§ 43-13-131. Influencing recipient to elect particular provider or type of services for purpose of obtaining increase in benefits or payments; penalties

§ 43-13-133. Intent as to use of federal matching funds

§ 43-13-137. Division to comply with Administrative Procedure Law

§ 43-13-139. Governor authorized to discontinue or limit medical assistance to optional groups; division to cease state funding upon discontinuance of federal funding

§ 43-13-143. Medical Care Fund

§ 43-13-145. Assessment levied upon health care facilities; keeping of records; collection of assessments; effect of delinquency in payment