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Date Issued
Submitting OIG
Department of Health & Human Services OIG
Other Participating OIGs
Department of Health & Human Services OIG
Agencies Reviewed/Investigated
Department of Health & Human Services
Components
National Institutes of Health
Report Number
A-07-20-05127
Report Type
Audit
Location

MO,
United States

Number of Recommendations
4
Questioned Costs
$263
Funds for Better Use
$0
External Entity
Saint Louis University

Open Recommendations

This report has 4 open recommendations.
Recommendation Number Significant Recommendation Recommended Questioned Costs Recommended Funds for Better Use Additional Details
23-A-07-081.01 No $263 $0

We recommend that Saint Louis University refund $263 to NIH for unallowable travel costs.

23-A-07-081.02 No $0 $0

We recommend that Saint Louis University ensure that it always manages NIH awards in accordance with Federal and award requirements by strengthening procedures for reconciliation of payroll costs to approved salaries and wages and to payroll reports, and strengthening controls to ensure the timely completion and certification of employee time and effort reports after completion of each 6-month reporting period.

23-A-07-081.03 No $0 $0

We recommend that Saint Louis University enhance its existing controls by developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure that either the internal audits conducted by its internal audit firm, the University's compliance department, or both, review costs that the University claims for its NIH awards.

23-A-07-081.04 No $0 $0

We recommend that Saint Louis University strengthen its controls, to include policies and procedures, to ensure that it properly monitors its subaward subrecipients, to include: evaluating its current risk assessment policies and procedures and implementing procedures to improve monitoring of subrecipients classified as high or medium risk and developing and implementing notification and followup procedures to be executed in cases of subrecipient subaward or contract cancellation.

Department of Health & Human Services OIG

United States