Federal Reports

NSA publicly released, under the Freedom of Information Act, these three NSA OIG reports in 2016 on NSA.gov. They concern NSA activities conducted pursuant to two authorities: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States in certain cases, and Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which was replaced in 2015 by the USA FREEDOM Act. Publication here is meant to add to the available resources of oversight.gov.

NSA publicly released, under the Freedom of Information Act, these three NSA OIG reports in 2016 on NSA.gov. They concern NSA activities conducted pursuant to two authorities: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States in certain cases, and Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which was replaced in 2015 by the USA FREEDOM Act. Publication here is meant to add to the available resources of oversight.gov.

OIG oversees all State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs or Units). As part of this oversight, OIG conducts periodic reviews of all Units and prepares public reports based on these reviews. The reviews assess Unit performance in accordance with the 12 MFCU performance standards and monitor Unit compliance with Federal grant requirements.

Hennepin County Medical Center (the Hospital) complied with Medicare billing requirements for 134 of the 211 inpatient and outpatient claims we reviewed. However, the Hospital did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements for the remaining 77 claims, resulting in overpayments of $537,000 for CYs 2012 and 2013 (audit period). On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that the Hospital received overpayments totaling at least $1.6 million for the audit period. Overpayments occurred primarily because the Hospital did not have adequate controls to prevent the incorrect billing of Medicare claims within the selected risk areas that contained errors.

Nevada did not allocate costs for establishing a health insurance marketplace to its establishment grants in accordance with Federal requirements. As a result, Nevada misallocated $893,000 in costs to the establishment grants instead of the Medicaid program over 3 years.