(a) For all services for which the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) provides remuneration, PRS is in effect, the legal owner of the funds used to pay for the goods or services. PRS has the right and responsibility to seek legal redress for any overpayments that may occur as a result of a provider's actions.
(b) The most common form of criminal sanction would take place under the Texas Penal Code, §§31.032, 7.23, and 37.10.

Source Note: The provisions of this §730.2202 adopted to be effective April 1, 1981, 6 TexReg 1081; amended to be effective June 15, 1987, 12 TexReg 1395; duplicated effective September 1, 1992, as published in the Texas Register September 11, 1992, 17 TexReg 6279.