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Department of Health & Human Services
Medicare Could Have Saved Millions of Dollars in Payments for Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy Planning Services
Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) allows doctors to sculpt radiation beams to the shape of a patient's tumor. Medicare makes a single payment to hospitals for development of a 3D-CRT treatment plan. Automated prepayment edits generally prevent additional payments for separately billed radiation planning services if they are billed on the same date of service as the 3D-CRT treatment plan. However, Medicare billing requirements do not prohibit and system edits do not prevent additional payments if the services are billed on a different date of service (e.g., 1 to 14 days before).
Audit of Community Service Grants awarded to WUFT TV and Radio, Gainesville, Florida for the Period July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018, Report No. ASJ1902-1903
Independent Audit of Financial Markets International, Inc.'s Proposed Amounts on Unsettled Flexibly Priced Contracts for the Three Fiscal Years Ended December 31, 2016
We evaluated the process TVA uses to verify the accuracy of payments made to the Department of Labor (DOL) for workers compensation benefits. We determined TVA did not have a formal process to verify the accuracy of payments made for schedule awards. Although TVA’s Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls verified certain aspects of the DOL billings, the SOX controls did not include steps to verify the accuracy of the elements in award of compensation letters and, as a result, some errors were not identified. Additionally, we found TVA was not performing a SOX control related to providing a summary of workers' compensation charges to the applicable organizations for review.
The OIG investigated allegations that a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Office of Law Enforcement and Security supervisor misused U.S. Government equipment and employee time in support of his personal business. It was also alleged that the supervisor made a wasteful purchase of a $3,250 mountain bike, misused a Government-owned vehicle and other Government-owned equipment for personal use, and inappropriately assigned himself to fire assignments where he earned overtime.We determined that the supervisor violated U.S. Department of the Interior policy on the use of Government property and 5 C.F.R. 2635.704, “Use of Government Property,” when he used Government equipment and employee time to support his personal business. We also found that the mountain bike purchase, although authorized, was wasteful. We determined that the supervisor had not misused a Government-owned vehicle for personal use, nor had he inappropriately assigned himself fire assignments.
