Department of Health & Human Services

The National Institutes of Health awarded $299,000 to Columbia University (Columbia) to replace research resources lost or damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Columbia claimed allowable Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Act costs for the period January 31, 2014, through February 28, 2015. Accordingly, this...

The Administration for Children and Families awarded $235.4 million in Disaster Relief Act funding to New York State for Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) activities, including social, health, and mental health services for individuals and for the repair, renovation, and rebuilding of health care...

CIGNA Government Services, LLC, a subsidiary of CIGNA Corporation, claimed unallowable postretirement benefit costs of $281,000 for Medicare reimbursement for fiscal years 2004 through 2012.

The New York State Department of Health used the correct Federal medical assistance percentages when processing Medicaid claim adjustments for both public and private providers during the period October 2008 through June 2011. Accordingly, this report contains no recommendations.

More than half of the Medicaid payments that the State agency made to providers for full vials of Herceptin were incorrect. Of the 381 line items reviewed, 203 (53 percent) were incorrect and included overpayments of about $1 million ($710,000 Federal share), or almost a third of total dollars...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) must review the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) compliance with the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA; P.L. No. 107-300) as amended by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (P.L. No. 111-204) and the Improper...

From October 1, 2011, through September 30, 2012, the California Department of Health Care Services claimed at least $516,000 in unallowable enhanced Federal reimbursement for Medicaid family planning drugs provided in Los Angeles County that did not comply with certain Federal requirements.

Lafayette General Medical Center (the Hospital) (operating in Louisiana) complied with Medicare billing requirements for 34 of the 103 inpatient claims and all 31 outpatient claims. However, the Hospital did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements for the remaining 69 inpatient claims...

Federal law requires that each Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) have its information security program evaluated annually by an independent entity, and these evaluations must address the eight major requirements enumerated in the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). To...

A Florida physical therapy practice (the Therapy Practice), located in Boca Raton, Florida, properly claimed Medicare reimbursement on 87 of 100 beneficiary claim days that we sampled. However, the Therapy Practice improperly claimed Medicare reimbursement on the remaining 13 beneficiary claim days...