(1) The office of inspector general shall engage in data mining relating to the receipt of medical assistance and any assistance paid for by TennCare on behalf of recipients, for the purpose of detecting fraud or abuse by recipients;
(2) The inspector general shall have prompt, continuing, and effective access to all such data in a manner that will permit effective data mining for these purposes without imposing unduly burdensome or oppressive requirements on persons or entities that provide medical assistance or any assistance paid for by TennCare; and
(3) Data mining by the office of the inspector general is not intended to alter the requirements under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq.), including, but not limited to, the requirements that the single state agency designated to administer the medicaid program must have methods and criteria for identifying suspected fraud cases, must have a method for verifying whether services billed were received, and must cooperate with the state's medicaid fraud control unit.
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