Federal Reports

Housing Works, Inc., operating in Brooklyn, New York, did not comply with all applicable Federal requirements and grant terms related to its Affordable Care Act (ACA)-funded New Access Point grant. Specifically, a Housing Works subsidiary (1 of 14 subsidiary nonprofit organizations overseen by Housing Works) did not track and account for these ACA-funded New Access Point grant expenditures separately from other Federal and non-Federal operating expenses and did not reconcile actual grant expenditures to its approved budgeted amounts used to draw down Federal funds. The Housing Works subsidiary followed Federal procurement standards and claimed allowable New Access Point grant costs of $150,000 for the purchase of a mobile health unit. However, we could not determine whether the remaining $1.2 million in grant costs claimed by the Housing Works subsidiary were allowable.

From April 1 through December 31, 2010, the California Department of Health Care Services (State agency) did not always comply with Federal Medicaid requirements for billing manufacturers for rebates for physician-administered drugs dispensed to enrollees of Medicaid managed-care organizations (MCOs). For the 20 MCOs we reviewed, the State agency billed for rebates for physician-administered drugs dispensed by 7 MCOs. However, the State agency did not bill for rebates for physician-administered drugs dispensed by the remaining 13 MCOs.