California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 14107.4

WIC § 14107.4 Effective Apr 4, 2011Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Any person who, with the intent to defraud, certifies as true and correct any cost report, submitted by a hospital to a state agency for reimbursement pursuant to Section 14170, who knowingly fails to disclose in writing on the cost report any significant beneficial interest, as defined in subdivision (d), which the owners of the provider, or members of the provider governing board, or employees of the provider, or independent contractor of the provider, have in the contractors or vendors to the providers, is guilty of a public offense.

(b)Any person who, with the intent to defraud, knowingly causes any material false information to be included in any cost report submitted by a hospital to a state agency for reimbursement pursuant to Section 14170 shall be guilty of an offense punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by a fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both a fine and imprisonment.

(c)The provider’s chief executive officer shall certify that any cost report submitted by a hospital to a state agency for reimbursement pursuant to Section 14170 shall be true and correct. In the case of a hospital which is operated as a unit of a coordinated group of health facilities and under common management, either the hospital’s chief executive officer or administrator, or the chief financial officer of the operating region of which the hospital is a part, shall certify to the accuracy of the report.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 632. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.