Federal Reports

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this self-initiated audit to assess NCUA’s procurement program. The objectives of our audit were to determine whether: 1) management’s control framework that supports procurement activities is appropriate, complete, and effective; and 2) NCUA’s procurement activities comply with applicable policies, procedures, laws, and regulations.

Medicare payments to New England providers were not always correct for nonphysician outpatient services provided within 3 days prior to the date of admission, on the date of admission, or during Inpatient Prospective Payment System stays. For 75 of the 129 services we sampled, Medicare paid providers twice, resulting in total overpayments of $288,000. Based on our sample results, we estimated that the Medicare contractor made approximately $1.3 million in overpayments to hospital outpatient providers during calendar years 2013 and 2014.

OIG reports issued in FY 2016 demonstrated high levels of compliance with OIG quality assurance procedures and received average compliance scores of 93 percent. Most of the issues identified during the FY 2015 review have improved. The FY 2016 review noted a few additional areas for improvement.

In accordance with our annual plan, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an analysis of the United States Capitol Police (USCP or the Department) Insider Threat Detection Program. The objective of our analysis was to determine how effectively the Department protects its information systems, which contain National Security Information and Law Enforcement Sensitive data, from threats posed by employees, especially those with special or elevated access to unclassified information technology systems or information based on their job description function.  The scope of the analysis included evaluation of controls, processes, and operations from October 1, 2015, through March 31, 2017.