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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Top Management and Performance Challenges for Fiscal Year 2021
We conducted surveys of GPO’s COVID-19 response and maximum telework status. The report contains our analysis and considerations for GPO Leadership and also contains the raw survey results as an attachment.
Human Resource Management: Smithsonian Needs to Strengthen Its Procedures for Hiring Trust Employees When Not Using the Federal Process (OIG-A-21-01, October 9, 2020)
The Smithsonian Office of the Inspector General conducted this audit to determine to what extent the Office of Human Resources and the units comply with Smithsonian policies and procedures for hiring Trust employees. This audit did not review the hiring of Trust employees in Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Smithsonian Enterprises.
Facet-joint injections of an anesthetic with or without a steroid are used to diagnose or treat chronic neck and back pain. To address inappropriate billing for pain management tied to overuse of spinal facet-joint injections, the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) developed a limitation of coverage.1 The coverage limitation allows physicians to be reimbursed, during a rolling 12-month period,2 for a maximum of five sessions3 in which facet-joint injections are delivered to the lumbar region of the spine (lumber spine) and a maximum of five sessions in which facet-joint injections are delivered to the cervical and thoracic regions of the spine (cervical/thoracic spine).4 (We refer to injection sessions in these two spinal areas during a rolling 12-month period as “selected facet-joint injection sessions.”) However, Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC (Noridian), one of the MACs, confirmed that a common error identified in audits it performed during calendar years 2016 through 2018 was that Medicare paid for more than five sessions in which facet-joint injections were delivered to the lumbar or cervical/thoracic spines during a rolling 12-month period. Therefore, we conducted this audit to determine whether Medicare made improper payments for selected facet-joint sessions in the MAC jurisdictions that had a coverage limitation from January 1, 2017, through May 31, 2019 (audit period).
The Newark Post Office is located in the Ohio Valley District of the Central Area. We conducted this audit in response to concerns raised by the OIG Office of Investigation of potential stamp stock manipulation. Our objective was to determine whether stamps, money orders, and cash were adequately protected at the Newark, OH, Post Office.
Suspected Violations of the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) “Government Ethics,” “Workplace Anti-Harassment,” “Security of Controlled Unclassified Information,” “Privacy Policy” and “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace” Policies: Not Substantiated; Violatio
