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Department of Health & Human Services
North Dakota Claimed Some Unallowable Medicaid Payments for Targeted Case Management Services
The North Dakota Department of Human Services' (State agency) claims for Medicaid reimbursement for Targeted Case Management (TCM) services provided and paid for during Federal fiscal years (FYs) 2013 and 2014 were not always in accordance with Federal requirements. Specifically, the State agency claimed at least $349,000 (Federal share) of unallowable Medicaid reimbursement and an estimated $862,000 (Federal share) of potentially unallowable Medicaid reimbursement for TCM services during this period. These errors occurred because the State agency did not have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure that the TCM services it claimed were allowable for Medicaid reimbursement in accordance with Federal requirements.
The OIG audited Information Technology's (IT) use of non-craft staff augmentation (SA) contractor employees working in IT positions during February 2016 for which TVA paid about $1.8 million in labor costs and associated labor markups. Overall, we found the majority of the 207 SA contractor employees had straight-time hourly pay rates less than or equal to TVA midpoint hourly pay rates and the rates were comparable to TVA employee pay rates for the corresponding job codes. However, we also found (1) TVA management's approval of SA contractor employee compensation exceeding the midpoint rate did not take into account the contractor's indirect cost markup rates applied to the pay rate, (2) IT does not currently have a policy in place requiring knowledge transfer from contractor to TVA employees, (3) manual data entry is required to update minimum and midpoint pay rates from TVA human resource information system, People Lifecycle Unified System (PLUS), into TVA's contractor system, IQNavigator (IQN), and (4) IQN compares a contractor employee's hourly rate change (e.g., pay increase) to the midpoint rate in effect for the job code when the assignment was made, rather than to the current midpoint rate unless a new assignment is created.
Letter to the Honorable Thomas Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Chairperson, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council: 2016 Management and Performance Challenges
Taxpayers on the Hook for Billions of TARP Dollars to be Paid to Ocwen, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Nationstar & Other Who Keep Abusing Homeowners and Breaking Federal Rules in HAMP
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
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Taxpayers on the hook for billions TARP dollars to be paid to Ocwen, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Nationstar & others who keep abusing homeowners and breaking federal rules in HAMP
