Federal Reports

We evaluated U.S. and Coalition progress towards accomplishing the Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC Air) mission to develop the Afghan Air Force into a professional, capable, and sustainable force.

New York did not always determine Medicaid eligibility for newly eligible beneficiaries in accordance with Federal and State requirements. In our sample of 130 beneficiaries, New York correctly determined eligibility for 90 beneficiaries. However, it did not determine eligibility for 37 beneficiaries in accordance with Federal and State requirements and did not provide supporting documentation to verify beneficiaries were newly eligible for the remaining 4 potentially ineligible beneficiaries. The total exceeds 130 because 1 beneficiary was found to be ineligible for one determination period and found to be potentially ineligible for another determination period. On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that New York made Federal Medicaid payments of $26.2 million on behalf of 47,271 ineligible beneficiaries.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) faces challenges in implementing the Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounter Protocol (KSTEP) screening process, which is used to identify aliens who may be known or suspected terrorists. Although ERO uses KSTEP to screen all aliens who are in ICE custody, ERO policy does not require continued screening of the approximately 2.37 million aliens when released and under ICE supervision. We sampled and tested 40 of 142 ERO case files of detained aliens identified as known or suspected terrorists during fiscal years 2013–15. All 40 files had at least one instance of noncompliance with KSTEP policy, generating greater concerns regarding the population of aliens screened and determined to have no connections to terrorism.

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation understated the Medicare segment allocable pension costs by $1.5 million and understated the Other segment allocable pension costs used to calculate its indirect cost rates by $7.2 million for calendar years 2008 through 2013.

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation did not claim $1.0 million of allowable fiscal intermediary and carrier contract Medicare pension costs on its Final Administrative Cost Proposals for fiscal years 2008 through 2013.