Department of Health & Human Services

News reports have raised concerns about foreign threats to the United States biomedical research enterprise. In a letter to institutes receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, the Director of NIH highlighted concerns about diversion of intellectual property; sharing of confidential...

Researchers have estimated that over 200,000 people die each year because of medical errors in hospitals. Learning from those and other, nonfatal events to improve patient safety is the goal of AHRQ's voluntary Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program. Hospitals' descriptions of their experiences...

Congress, NIH, and Federal intelligence agencies have raised concerns about foreign threats to the integrity of U.S. medical research and intellectual property. In August 2018, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH, raised concerns that peer reviewers were, in some cases, inappropriately sharing...

NIH awards more than 70 percent of its $37 billion budget to universities and other extramural grantee institutions (institutions). Identifying and managing investigators' financial conflicts of interest (financial conflicts) is critical to safeguarding the integrity of NIH-funded research. In 2008...

We conducted this audit in response to a congressional letter requesting a review of email usage by political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that "…officials are following the spirit and letter of all federal laws and regulations, as well as departmental...

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) established the trust fund known as Superfund. The CERCLA requires the Inspector General of a Federal organization with Superfund responsibilities to audit all uses of the fund in the prior fiscal year (FY).

National Government Services, Inc., claimed unallowable fiscal intermediary and carrier contract nonqualified plans costs of $426,123 on its Final Administrative Cost Proposals for fiscal years 2007 through 2013.

National Government Services, Inc., claimed unallowable fiscal intermediary and carrier contract Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan costs of $36,524 on its Final Administrative Cost Proposals for fiscal years 2007 through 2013.

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) directly affects both the Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid. Under CHIPRA, Congress appropriated $3.225 billion for qualifying States to receive performance bonus payments (bonus payments) for Federal fiscal...

Ohio makes capitation payments to five managed care organizations (MCOs) for beneficiaries in the Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) program. Previous OIG reviews in other States identified Medicaid payments made on behalf of ineligible beneficiaries and duplicative monthly capitation payments.