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U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service Transportation Cost of Mail Transport Equipment
Our objective was to assess the Postal Service’s efforts to reduce transportation costs of Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) in the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center (MTESC) network. The MTESC network is a nationwide network of 14 contractor-operated facilities. MTESC facilities process, repair, store, and distribute MTE (containers, sacks, trays, flat tubs, sleeves, and pallets) to processing and distribution centers (P&DCs) and business mailers. The cost to move MTE nationwide decreased from $41.5 million in fiscal year (FY) 2017 to $31.7 million in FY 2018. However, the cost to move MTE within the MTESC network increased from $21.3 million to $30.2 million during this period.
Investigations Press Release: Former FMC Lexington Inmate Sentenced to 28 Months for Making False Allegations against Prison Staff and Possessing Morphine
This audit is part of a series of hospital compliance audits. Using computer matching, data mining, and data analysis techniques, we identified hospital claims that were at risk for noncompliance with Medicare billing requirements. For calendar year 2017, Medicare paid hospitals $206 billion, which represents 55 percent of all fee-for-service payments for the year.
The audit resulted in an adverse opinion due to significant departures from generally accounting principles and federal reporting requirements, including material misstatements and omissions in the Commission’s financial statements and footnotes. The misstatementsand omissions were material and pervasive, and included the failure to record accounts payable accrual and accurately record other accrued liabilities, which materially misstated the Commission’s beginning and ending balances, and the omission of uncorrected errors in required footnotes.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG0 completed a final action verification (FAV) of all eight recommendations for audit report 24601-0001-23, Implementation of the Public Health Information System for Domestic Inspection, Audit published in August 2015. The purpose of the FAV was to determine whether the documentation the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) provided to the Office of the Cheif Financial Officer (OCFO) was sufficient to close the recommendations made in audit report 24601-0001-23.
