Federal Reports

Purchase Card Assessment and Review of the Charge Card Program for Fiscal Year 2025

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA Central Alabama Health Care System in Montgomery. 

This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
     •    Culture
     •    Environment of care
     •    Patient safety
     •    Primary care
     •    Veteran-centered safety net

The OIG issued 15 recommendations for VA to correct identified deficiencies in three domains:
   1.    Environment of care
     •    Detectable warning surfaces
     •    Training for toxic exposure screenings
     •    Repeat findings
     •    Biohazardous material storage
     •    Clean and safe environment
   2.    Patient safety
     •    Communication of test results
     •    Peer Review Committee attendance
     •    Sentinel events and institutional disclosures
     •    Action plan tracking
     •    Medical emergency roles and responsibilities
     •    Emergency response policy
     •    Basic life support certification
   3.    Primary care
     •    Patients assigned to primary care teams

Why We Did This Report

The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-194, requires inspectors general to conduct periodic audits and assessments of purchase card programs and periodic audits or reviews of travel card programs at their agencies.
 

Summary of Findings

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducts periodic audits, assessments, and reviews of the travel and purchase card programs at the EPA and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.  In fiscal year 2025, however, we did not perform a purchase or travel card program audit, assessment, or review for the EPA or the CSB. Also, as of the date of this letter, there are no outstanding OIG recommendations related to the EPA or CSB travel and purchase card programs.

Why We Did This Report

The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, Pub. L. 112-194, and Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-123, Appendix B, A Risk Management Framework for Government Charge Card Programs, directs each head of an executive agency with more than $10 million in purchase card spending annually, and each inspector general of such an executive agency, to submit to the OMB director, on a semiannual basis, a joint report on purchase card violations. 
 

Summary of Findings

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepared the Semi-Annual Report on Purchase Charge Card Violations for the period of April 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025. The EPA reported no violations for the period. The OIG received no information that is inconsistent with the EPA’s violation report for the reporting period. Additionally, the OIG received no allegations of misuse of the government purchase card for the semiannual period.

IBC ICCAD internal control vulnerabilities increase the risk of unauthorized or erroneous rate changes, data integrity issues, and audit trail gaps.

We discuss DOI’s progress in implementing Government charge card recommendations in FY 2025 and other DOI-related charge card audits and evaluations.