Department of Health & Human Services OIG

The opioid crisis was recently declared a public health emergency. In 2016, more than 42,000 opioid-related overdose deaths occurred in the United States-115 deaths per day. This data brief is part of a larger strategy by OIG to fight the opioid crisis and protect beneficiaries from prescription...

Florence Crittenton Services of Orange County, Inc. (Crittenton), located in Fullerton, California, met most of the applicable safety standards for the care and release of children in its custody. However, Crittenton released some children to sponsors without conducting all required background...

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration did not always verify nursing homes’ correction of deficiencies identified during surveys in calendar year 2015 in accordance with Federal requirements. For the 100 sampled deficiencies, the State agency verified the correction of 82 nursing home...

Cahaba Safeguard Administrators, LLC, understated the Medicare segment pension assets as of January 1, 2014, by $290,831.

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation understated Medicare’s share of the surplus of Medicare segment pension assets by $17.7 million.

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...

Connect for Health Colorado (Colorado marketplace), the health insurance exchange established by the State of Colorado under the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, did not always comply with Federal requirements when expending Federal establishment grant funds allocated...

Illinois implemented most of the new criminal background check requirements established under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act. However, certain criminal background check requirements for childcare providers remained unimplemented as of March 1, 2018, and significant challenges may...

Nebraska did not always verify nursing homes’ correction of deficiencies identified during surveys in calendar year (CY) 2016 in accordance with Federal requirements. We estimated that Nebraska did not obtain or maintain the nursing homes’ evidence verifying correction of deficiencies for 866 (92...

Ohio did not always comply with State requirements for maintaining documentation that Title IV-E-eligible children residing in group homes received required case management services and that case workers were qualified to provide those services. As a result, Ohio did not always have assurance that...