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<title>Local Medicaid Enforcement Incentives Act of 2014</title>
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<action-date>2014-12-10</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Local Medicaid Enforcement Incentives Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a grant program to provide states with funds to: (1) detect and prevent Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse; (2) recover overpayments to individuals or entities receiving Medicaid funds that result from such fraud, waste, or abuse; and (3) share with localities within the state that assist in such detection and prevention, or the recovery of such overpayments, at least 50% of the state's share of the total overpayments recovered during a period, minus administrative costs. </p>]]></summary-text>
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