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Committee hears SB 961 on strengthening Medicaid eligibility verification and provider fraud provisions; bill left pending
Summary
Senate Bill 961 would codify verification processes to reduce Medicaid fraud and waste, require cross‑checks of eligibility factors and limit self‑attestation; sponsors said the bill also clarifies legal standards for prosecuting provider fraud. The committee heard invited witnesses and agency resource staff and left the bill pending.
Senate Bill 961 was laid out to the Health & Human Services Committee as a package of proposals to strengthen Medicaid eligibility verification, reduce fraud and clarify prosecutions of provider wrongdoing.
The sponsor described Medicaid as one of the state's largest safety‑net programs, serving roughly 4.3 million Texans, and said program integrity requires elimination of some self‑attestation and more frequent cross‑checks of electronic data (for example, IRS and vital‑records…
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