Federal Reports

Long-term-care employees provide essential care to patients in settings such as nursing facilities, home health agencies, and hospices. Ensuring that these employees have undergone a minimum level of screening helps protect the safety of beneficiaries in these settings. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides grants to States to implement background check programs for prospective long-term-care employees. The ACA also requires OIG to conduct an evaluation of this grant program-known as the National Background Check Program-after its completion. This interim report describes the overall implementation status and States' results from the first 4 years of the program, and provides CMS with information that may assist its ongoing administration of this program. OIG also plans to issue a final evaluation of the grant program after its completion.

Not all of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange’s (Washington marketplace) internal controls were effective in ensuring that individuals were enrolled in qualified health plans (QHPs) according to Federal requirements.

This report contains information about recommendations from the OIG’s audits, evaluations, and reviews that the OIG had not closed as of the specified date because it had not determined that the Department of Justice had fully implemented them. The information omits recommendations that the Department of Justice determined to be classified or sensitive, and therefore unsuitable for public release. The status of each recommendation was accurate as of the specified date and is subject to change. Specifically, a recommendation identified as not closed as of the specified date may subsequently have been closed.

The NARA Office of Inspector General engaged, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, to conduct an audit in support of the FISMA requirement for an annual evaluation of NARA’s information security program. The objective of this performance audit was to determine whether NARA implemented selected security and privacy controls for selected information systems in support of FISMA and related information security policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.