§ 2A:102-25 — Relief from liability for claims paid improperly to State.

7. A person, firm, corporation, association, funeral home, pooled trust, depository institution or insurance company and their employees or agents that, in accordance with the provisions of this act, pays money to the State in good faith is relieved of all liability for any claim then existing or which thereafter may arise or be made in respect to the money paid. The estate or personal representative of a deceased person may seek restitution on behalf of the estate for a payment that may have been improperly made to the State. The pooled trust, depository institution or insurance company shall forward the claim, together with its opinion as to whether the payment was improperly made to the State, to the Director of the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services in the Department of Human Services, or his designee, who shall review the claim and, if the claim is justified, refund in a timely manner moneys found to have been improperly paid over to the State L.1999,c.193,s.7.