Department of Health & Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of Financial Advisory Services (DFAS), is the cognizant Federal agency responsible for negotiating and establishing indirect cost rates for for-profit organizations that receive the majority of their...

Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC, did not claim $104,958 of allowable Medicare pension costs on its incurred cost proposals for calendar years 2008 through 2013.

Cahaba Government Benefits Administrators, LLC, did not claim $2.7 million of allowable Medicare pension costs on its incurred cost proposals for calendar years 2008 through 2013.

Cahaba Government Benefits Administrators, LLC, claimed $92,392 of unallowable Medicare fiscal intermediary and carrier contract pension costs on its Final Administrative Cost Proposals for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.

Cahaba Government Benefits Administrators, LLC, overstated the Medicare segment pension assets as of January 1, 2014, by $622,074.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had policies and procedures in place that were generally effective in ensuring that capitation payments to Medicare Advantage organizations' prescription drug plans and stand-alone prescription drug plans (collectively referred to as "sponsors") for...

The Indian Health Service's (IHS) travel card program, under which IHS employees are to use Government charge cards for nearly all payments of expenses related to official Government travel, did not always comply with Federal requirements and IHS's own policy. We identified 16 transactions (out of...

Prior OIG reviews found that hospitals did not always comply with Medicare requirements for reporting credits received from manufacturers for replaced medical devices.

Overall, the Department has made improvements and continues to implement changes to strengthen its enterprise-wide information security program including adhering to security training procedures and updating policies and procedures. Further, the Department continues to work towards implementing a...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), manages the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program. The UAC program served between 7,000 and 8,000 children annually from fiscal year (FY) 2005 through FY 2011. In FY 2012, however, the number of children...