Section 208.222

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 208

Effective - 28 Aug 2025, see footnote   

  208.222.  Criminal background check, fingerprint submission. — 1.  The Missouri Medicaid audit and compliance unit within the department of social services may require that fingerprint submissions be made as part of an application seeking to be licensed as a MO HealthNet provider for the purpose of providing MO HealthNet services to eligible persons and obtaining from the department of social services or its divisions reimbursement for eligible services.

  2.  If the Missouri Medicaid audit and compliance unit within the department of social services requires that fingerprint submissions be made as part of such application, the Missouri Medicaid audit and compliance unit within the department of social services shall require applicants to submit the fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal history background check.

  3.  The fingerprints and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's central repository.  The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540.  The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the Missouri Medicaid audit and compliance unit within the department of social services of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the Missouri Medicaid audit and compliance unit within the department of social services.

  4.  For purposes of this section, the following terms mean:

  (1)  "MO HealthNet provider", an individual or business that enters into a contractor provider agreement with the department of social services or its divisions for the purpose of providing services to eligible persons and obtaining from the department of social services or its divisions reimbursement for such services;

  (2)  "MO HealthNet services", medical services defined and determined by the department of social services or listed specifically in section 208.152 in which eligible persons receive as part of their Missouri Medicaid coverage.

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(L. 2025 S.B. 71 merged with S.B. 81 & 174)