Department of Health & Human Services OIG

New York provides Personal Emergency Response Services (PERS) to eligible Medicaid beneficiaries through contracts negotiated between local social services districts (local districts) and PERS providers. Beneficiaries authorized to receive PERS receive electronic communication equipment in their...

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was authorized to receive $48 billion in funding for the 5-year period beginning October 1, 2008, to assist foreign countries in combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Additional funds were authorized to be appropriated through 2018.

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.