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Department of Defense
Followup Audit: Audit Recommendations From Report No. DODIG-2013-109 Were Not Fully Implemented, but Controls Were in Place to Prevent Unauthorized Access to Robert C. Byrd and Greenup Locks and Dams
The future of advertising mail—currently a critical product for the Postal Service’s bottom line—is uncertain. Key external factors impacting future advertising mail volumes are: the national economy, the growth of Internet advertising, and the degree to which Internet advertising displaces advertising mail. Despite the importance of external factors on advertising mail, the future of advertising mail is not predetermined.
This report provides a visual representation of data on the workload activities of Medicare benefit integrity contractors in calendar years 2012 and 2013. The report allows for a quick comparison of workload statistics across the 2 years, across contractors, and across Medicare programs and provides a baseline for reviewing contractors' quantitative results over time. The report provides descriptive information about the changes that occurred from 2012 to 2013 as well as the variation among contractors' workload statistics. However, the report does not examine the underlying causes of those changes or variations. The contractors include Program Safeguard Contractors, Zone Program Integrity Contractors, and the National Benefit Integrity Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor. Past OIG work has shown substantial variation among benefit integrity contractors with respect to the number of investigations they started and the number of cases that they referred to law enforcement. It has also shown that the contractors made limited use of proactive methods to identify potential fraud and abuse; and that they did not report workload statistics in a uniform manner. In addition, previous OIG work has identified anomalies in contractors' workload statistics, which may highlight issues with the CMS's oversight of these contractors. Although we have conducted previous studies on these individual contractor types, this is the first report to provide the results of benefit integrity activities across all of these contractors. Figure 1 provides a comparison of the results of benefit integrity contractors' activities between 2012 and 2013.
