N.M. Stat. § 27-14-3 : — PUBLIC ASSISTANCEMEDICAID FALSE CLAIMS ACT —14-3 - Definitions

As used in the Medicaid False Claims Act:

A. "claim" means a written or electronically submitted request for payment of health care services pursuant to the medicaid program;
B. "department" means the human services department;
C. "medicaid" means the federal-state program administered by the human services department pursuant to Title 19 or Title 21 of the federal Social Security Act;
D. "medicaid recipient" means an individual on whose behalf a person claims or receives a payment from the medicaid program, regardless of whether the individual was eligible for the medicaid program; and
E. "qui tam" means an action brought under a statute that allows a private person to sue for a recovery, part of which the state will receive.

NMS § 27-14-3

Laws 2004, ch. 49, § 3.
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