Federal Reports

Mortgage servicers have wrongfully terminated homeowners out of the HAMP program

The effectiveness of the CSB’s information security program is challenged by its lack of personal identity verification cards for logical access, complete system inventory, and documented policies and procedures for specialized security training.

SIGTARP's Quarterly Report to Congress

The OIG audited costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by URS Energy and Construction, Inc. (URS), under contract numbers 66777 and 72142. The audit included approximately $113.6 million in costs URS billed to TVA from January 1, 2012, to November 26, 2013.The OIG determined URS may have overbilled TVA $6,885,835 in shared cost savings and $317,852 for a completion bonus, due to potential misrepresentations in estimated material costs included in the Target Cost Estimate for the John Sevier Combined Cycle project. In addition, we determined URS overbilled TVA $1,205,758, including: (1) $378,212 in overbilled temporary assignment costs, (2) $325,876 in other direct costs, (3) $439,189 in labor costs, (4) $55,390 in markup costs, and (5) $7,091 in travel costs. URS issued credits and refunds to TVA during the course of our audit, which reduced the amount to be recovered by $76,745.(Summary Only)

University of Minnesota Medical Center (the Hospital) complied with Medicare billing requirements for 125 of the 255 inpatient and outpatient claims we reviewed. However, the Hospital did not fully comply with Medicare billing requirements for the remaining 130 claims, resulting in overpayments of $565,000 for CYs 2012 and 2013 (audit period). On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that the Hospital received overpayments totaling at least $3.3 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.