Disposition for Medicare Records When Potential Fraud or

30.30.1.5 - Disposition for Medicare Records When Potential Fraud or Overutilization Has Been Identified (Rev. 38, Issued: 05-26-06, Effective: 06-26-06, Implementation: 06-26-06) When potential fraud or overutilization has been identified, retain the recordkeeping copy onsite. If the recordkeeping copy has already been transferred to offsite storage, retrieve and retain onsite until the investigation and subsequent legal action, if any, has been completed (including the exhaustion of all appeals), then destroy 3 months thereafter. If at the close of this period, the disposition instructions shown in §30.30.1.1 through 30.30.2 remains applicable, retain, transfer, and destroy in accordance with the disposition instructions. If the disposition instructions in §30.30.1.1 through 30.30.2 are no longer applicable, then destroy after the 3 month period following completion of the investigation or subsequent legal action, if any. If any records are provided to a prosecutorial agency as evidentiary matter, consider such records as disposed of. If any such record is returned by the prosecutorial agency, retain for 3 months, then destroy in accordance with the foregoing disposition instructions unless otherwise directed by the prosecutorial agency.