§ 32. Functions, duties and responsibilities. The inspector shall have\nthe following functions, duties and responsibilities:\n 1. to appoint such deputies, directors, assistants and other officers\nand employees as may be needed for the performance of his or her duties\nand may prescribe their duties and fix their compensation within the\namounts appropriated therefor;\n 2. to conduct and supervise activities to prevent, detect and\ninvestigate medical assistance program fraud and abuse amongst the\nfollowing: the department; the offices of mental health, alcoholism and\nsubstance abuse services, temporary disability assistance, and children\nand family services and the office for people with developmental\ndisabilities;\n 3. to coordinate, to the greatest extent possible, activities to\nprevent, detect and investigate medical assistance program fraud and\nabuse amongst the following: the department; the offices of mental\nhealth, alcoholism and substance abuse services, temporary disability\nassistance, and children and family services and the office for people\nwith developmental disabilities; the commission on quality of care and\nadvocacy for persons with disabilities; the department of education; the\nfiscal agent employed to operate the medical assistance information and\npayment system; local governments and entities; and to work in a\ncoordinated and cooperative manner with, to the greatest extent\npossible, the deputy attorney general for Medicaid fraud control; the\nwelfare inspector general, federal prosecutors, district attorneys\nwithin the state, the special investigative unit maintained by each\nhealth insurer operating within the state, and the state comptroller;\n 4. to solicit, receive and investigate complaints related to fraud and\nabuse within the medical assistance program;\n 5. to keep the governor, attorney general, state comptroller,\ntemporary president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker and\nthe minority leader of the assembly, and the heads of agencies with\nresponsibility for the administration of the medical assistance program\napprised of efforts to prevent, detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud\nand abuse within the medical assistance program, and to provide a\nquarterly briefing to the legislature on activities of the office;\n 6. to pursue civil and administrative enforcement actions against any\nindividual or entity that engages in fraud, abuse, or illegal or\nimproper acts or unacceptable practices perpetrated within the medical\nassistance program, including but not limited to: (a) referral of\ninformation and evidence to regulatory agencies and licensure boards;\n(b) withholding payment of medical assistance funds in accordance with\nstate and federal laws and regulations; (c) imposition of administrative\nsanctions and penalties in accordance with state and federal laws and\nregulations; (d) exclusion of providers, vendors and contractors from\nparticipation in the program; (e) initiating and maintaining actions for\ncivil recovery and, where authorized by law, seizure of property or\nother assets connected with improper payments; and entering into civil\nsettlements; and (f) recovery of improperly expended medical assistance\nprogram funds from those who engage in fraud or abuse, or illegal or\nimproper acts perpetrated within the medical assistance program. In the\npursuit of such civil and administrative enforcement actions under this\nsubdivision, the inspector shall consider the quality and availability\nof medical care and services and the best interest of both the medical\nassistance program and recipients;\n 6-a. to post on the department's internet website, within reasonably\nprompt fashion, all final administrative determinations issued by\nadministrative law judges in connection with any actions taken by the\noffice pursuant to this title;\n 7. to make information and evidence relating to suspected criminal\nacts which he or she may obtain in carrying ou
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