Federal Reports

TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC, claimed $228,000 of unallowable Medicare pension costs on its Incurred Cost Proposals for calendar years 2008 through 2013.

In November 2016, we issued our review of the Peace Corps' Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Response Program as required by the Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act of 2011. As part of this evaluation, we reviewed 138 cases files for sexual assaults reported to the Peace Corps. Upon review of a sample of recently unredacted documents, we were able to verify the accuracy of our original 2016 analysis. This memorandum has been appended to the original 2016 report.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated a survey of the United States Capitol Police (USCP or Department) Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT). Our objective was to solicit and assess feedback from senior officials related to CERT's operations; thereby identifying areas of concern for future work.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (State agency) did not comply with Federal Medicaid waiver and State requirements for reporting and monitoring critical incidents involving Medicaid beneficiaries with developmental disabilities residing in community residences. The State agency did not fulfill many of the participant safeguard assurances it provided to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its Medicaid waiver. Specifically, the State agency did not (1) ensure that community-based providers reported all critical incidents to the State agency; (2) ensure that community-based providers conducted administrative reviews of all critical incidents involving serious injuries, dangerous situations, or suicidal acts and submitted their findings within 30 days; (3) report appropriately all restraint usage and rights violations to Disability Rights Maine (DRM); (4) review and analyze data on all critical incidents; (5) investigate and report immediately to the appropriate district attorney's office or to law enforcement all critical incidents involving suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation; and (6) ensure that community-based providers reported all beneficiary deaths to the State agency appropriately and that the State agency analyzed, investigated, and reported the deaths to law enforcement or Maine's Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).