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Report File
Date Issued
Submitting OIG
Railroad Retirement Board OIG
Other Participating OIGs
Railroad Retirement Board OIG
Agencies Reviewed/Investigated
Railroad Retirement Board
Report Number
16-10
Report Type
Audit
Agency Wide
Yes
Number of Recommendations
26
Questioned Costs
$64,200,000
Funds for Better Use
$19,500

Open Recommendations

This report has 18 open recommendations.
Recommendation Number Significant Recommendation Recommended Questioned Costs Recommended Funds for Better Use Additional Details
16-1024 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursement of Medicare management costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

16-1014 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should submit a detailed indirect cost rate proposal in support of its allowable and allocable indirect labor costs to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval prior to reimbursement.

16-1015 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursements resulting from the allocation of all of the Railroad Retirement Board’s indirect labor and non-labor costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

16-1023 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should determine the correct Medicare direct labor reimbursement amount using the compliant employee profiles.

16-101 No $0 $0

The Executive Committee should perform a time study of Medicare work performed by all agency staff.

16-102 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Executive Committee should establish an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 compliant and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved personnel activity report based system that will ensure the capture and reporting of actual Medicare work performed.

16-103 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Executive Committee should update the Railroad Retirement Board employee direct labor profiles to represent actual work performed based on an Office of Management and Bduget Circular A-87 compliant system methodology.

16-104 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should adopt and implement Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 as an agency requirement.

16-105 No $0 $0

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to update the Medicare interagency agreement and establish procedures for maintaining and updating the agreement.

16-106 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should re-evaluate the Railroad Retirement Boards’s cost allocation plan and implement an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 compliant methodology for future Medicare direct labor costs using appropriate specialists and expertise.

16-107 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should utilize and maintain Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 compliant personnel activity reports and employee certifications through authorization by the Railroad Retirement Board’s Executive Committee to ensure that reimbursed Medicare direct labor costs represents costs for actual and allowable Medicare work performed.

16-108 No $30,400,000 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursement of Medicare direct labor costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current based on actual work performed.

16-1016 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Executive Committee should conduct a thorough investigation and determine if the Purpose Statute and/or Antideficiency Act was violated as a result of the RRB’s Medicare reimbursement process and report violations in accordance with Office of Management and Budget Circular A-11.

16-109 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should develop and certify an indirect cost methodology and rate that complies with Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 using appropriate specialists and expertise.

16-1010 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should obtain Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services approval for the indirect cost methodology and rate developed based on the recommendations in this report.

16-1011 No $33,800,000 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should determine the correct Medicare indirect cost reimbursement amount for fiscal years 2010 to current using the compliant indirect cost rate for the period.

16-1012 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should establish procedures requiring annual certification of the cost allocation plan and indirect cost rate prior to reimbursement that complies with Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87.

16-1013 No $0 $0 Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should establish a variance analysis control process that will help to identify indirect cost reimbursement miscalculations and ensure timely corrective action.

Railroad Retirement Board OIG

United States