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U.S. Agency for International Development
Assessment of USAID's Purchase Card Program Showed Low Risk of Improper Purchases and Payments in Fiscal Year 2022
Medicare Paid Independent Organ Procurement Organizations Over Half a Million Dollars for Professional and Public Education Overhead Costs That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements
States With Separate Children's Health Insurance Programs Could Have Collected an Estimated $641 Million Annually If States Were Required To Obtain Rebates Through the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program
Pursuant to an Office of the Inspector General subpoena, we obtained Alaska Department of Health data that contained the personally identifiable information (PII) of 217,851 individuals the State recorded as deceased from January 13, 1900 to February 14, 2023. We processed thedata through the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Enumeration Verification System and against SSA payment records and identified 119 beneficiaries in current or suspended payment status whose PII matched that of deceased individuals in the Alaska death data.
EAC OIG, through the independent public accounting firm of Brown & Company CPAs and Management Consultants, PLLC, audited EAC’s information security program for fiscal year 2023 in support of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA). The objective was to determine whether EAC implemented selected security controls for certain information systems in support of FISMA.
This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the inpatient and outpatient care provided at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, which includes medical centers in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Livermore and multiple outpatient clinics in California. This evaluation focused on five key operational areas:• Leadership and organizational risks• Quality, safety, and value• Medical staff privileging• Environment of care• Mental health (focusing on emergency department and urgent care center suicide prevention initiatives)The OIG issued four recommendations for improvement in two areas:1. Leadership and Organizational Risks• Institutional disclosures for sentinel events2. Environment of Care• Preventive maintenance on medical equipment• Access to medications only by authorized staff• Clean and safe environment
