NRS422.550. Statement regarding truth and accuracy of applications, reports and invoices; perjury; presumption concerning person who signs statement on behalf of provider.

      1.  Each application or report submitted to participate as a provider, each report stating income or expense upon which rates of payment are or may be based, and each invoice for payment for goods or services provided to a recipient must contain a statement that all matters stated therein are true and accurate, signed by a natural person who is the provider or is authorized to act for the provider, under the pains and penalties of perjury.

      2.  A person is guilty of perjury which is a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 if the person signs or submits, or causes to be signed or submitted, such a statement, knowing that the application, report or invoice contains information which is false, in whole or in part, by commission or by omission.

      3.  For the purposes of this section, a person who signs on behalf of a provider is presumed to have the authorization of the provider and to be acting at the direction of the provider.

      (Added to NRS by 1991, 1049; A 1995, 1274; 1997, 457)