Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 392 - CHILD CARE SUBSIDY PROGRAM
Chapter 5 - CHILD CARE GRANTS
Section 392-5-005 - Provider Overpayments

The Department must take all reasonable steps necessary to promptly correct overpayments.

The Department will send a letter to the provider informing the provider that there is an overpayment, giving the provider the opportunity to discuss the overpayment with a Department representative, and informing the provider of his/her right to appeal the existence or amount of the overpayment. The provider has 45 days to appeal the overpayment.

If the provider does not appeal or contact the Department to work out a repayment agreement, the overpayment will be recouped from future billings for the same or different children, or from another service.

When the evidence clearly establishes that a provider willfully over-billed the Department, the worker will refer the provider to the Special Investigations Unit, Central Office; or in the Omaha Office, to the Omaha Special Investigation Unit. Any information, documentation, investigative reports, etc., that are developed or obtained will be shared with other programs within the HHS System and with appropriate state agencies such as the Department of Education.