Federal Reports

This review is part of a series of hospital compliance reviews. Using computer matching, data mining, and data analysis techniques, we identified hospital claims that were at risk for noncompliance with Medicare billing requirements. For calendar year 2015, Medicare paid hospitals $163 billion, which represents 46 percent of all fee-for-service payments for the year.

The Office of Inspector General released a summary of its fiscal year 2017 examination of NASA’s information security program under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA).

We found that for FY 2017, second quarter submission, PBGC generally complied with DATA Act requirements for completeness, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of the data, including implementation and use of the government-wide financial data standards established by OMB and Treasury. However, we identified some inconsistencies, omissions and errors, which caused the information available to the public and Congress on Beta.USAspending.gov to not fully reflect PBGC’s operations. We recommended PBGC to develop and implement procedures to ensure the completion of a quality control review of data files before each quarterly data submission and a review information on Beta.USAspending.gov after publication for indications of errors and incompleteness. PBGC agreed with the recommendation and provided actions taken and corrective actions planned to strengthen quality control over data submission. PBGC planned to complete corrective action by the September 30, 2017 data submission.

Audit of the FY 17 NLRB financial statements.