Federal Reports

On July 1, 2013, nearly 9 months after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, NIH began awarding Disaster Relief Act funds to New York University School of Medicine (NYU School of Medicine) for the restoration of its medical scientific research activities damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Specifically, for the period July 1, 2013, through September 30, 2015, NIH awarded $127.8 million in Disaster Relief Act funding for Grantee Research Programs to NYU School of Medicine. NYU School of Medicine planned to use the funds to restore experiments and reestablish research programs affected by the loss of bio-specimens, animals, data, and time. As of April 30, 2014, NYU School of Medicine claimed $25.1 million of its Disaster Relief Act grant funds for repair and restoration activities.

For the period October 2007 through September 2014, we determined that the Oregon Health Authority (State agency) incorrectly claimed Affordable Care Act Medicaid expenditures totaling $1.2 billion as Indian Health Service expenditures; however, there is no monetary recovery because these expenditures were eligible for 100-percent reimbursement.

For the period October 2007 through September 2014, we determined that the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (State agency) overstated the Federal share of Indian Health Service Medicaid expenditures on the CMS-64.9 by $1.4 million. These errors occurred because the State agency did not have adequate review procedures to identify data entry errors in the supporting documents of the CMS-64.

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