---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 455.14"
title: "42"
number: "455.14"
heading: "Preliminary investigation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/455.14"
---

# §455.14. Preliminary investigation.


If the agency receives a complaint of Medicaid fraud or abuse from any source or identifies any questionable practices, it must conduct a preliminary investigation to determine whether there is sufficient basis to warrant a full investigation.


## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 3756, Jan. 27, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45262, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 3756, Jan. 27, 1983]