Department of Health & Human Services OIG

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid STR) grants to States and territories to use for programs that address opioid addiction. The 21st Century Cures Act allowed SAMHSA to award $1 billion in funding, half...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 required CMS to phase in a Competitive Bidding Program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies. In July 2008, mail-order diabetes test strips became part of the Competitive Bidding Program in...

Pathways for Children, Inc. (Pathways), generally complied with Federal and State requirements by establishing systems of health and safety practices and management for ensuring the health and safety of children in its Head Start program. While we observed instances of noncompliance with select...

From January 1, 2015, through March 31, 2017 (audit period), Pacific Medical, Inc., which is located in Tracy, California, did not always comply with Medicare requirements when billing for selected orthotic braces (i.e., back, knee, and ankle-foot braces). For 89 of the 100 sampled claims, Pacific...

Atlantis Health Care Group of Puerto Rico, Inc., claimed dialysis services that did not comply with Medicare requirements during all 100 beneficiary-months that we sampled. (A beneficiary-month was defined as all dialysis services provided to a Medicare beneficiary during 1 calendar month.) For...

Weill Cornell Medicine awarded subawards and monitored subaward recipients in compliance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant polices and Federal regulations. In addition, as both a prime recipient and a subrecipient of NIH funds, Weill Cornell claimed allowable expenditures on subawards...

We conducted this review to determine whether the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had addressed known vulnerabilities in its oversight of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to ensure that program funds were being spent appropriately. In 2014, we reported...

Michigan expended almost two-thirds of the $3.6 million in civil monetary penalty (CMP) collections during our audit period, reimbursing organizations $2.3 million for activities that protected or improved the quality of care for nursing facility residents. However, it did not fully use available...

We reviewed the oversight of opioid prescribing and the monitoring of opioid use in West Virginia. This factsheet shows West Virginia's responses to our questionnaire covering five categories related to its approach to addressing the opioid epidemic: policies and procedures, data analytics, programs...

Lincoln Hall Boys' Haven (Lincoln Hall), an Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) grantee located in Lincolndale, New York, did not meet or properly document that it met certain safety requirements for the care and release of children in its custody. Further, it could not identify actual expenditures...