Federal Reports

We reviewed the oversight of opioid prescribing and the monitoring of opioid use in Kentucky. This factsheet shows Kentucky's responses to our questionnaire covering five categories related to its approach to addressing the opioid epidemic: policies and procedures, data analytics, programs, outreach, and other efforts.

The Office of Inspector General examined NASA’s management of the data centers it uses to manage Earth science data collected from satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other Agency programs.

This audit is part of a series of hospital compliance audits. Using computer matching, data mining, and other data analysis techniques, we identified hospital claims that were at risk for noncompliance with Medicare billing requirements. For calendar year 2016, Medicare paid hospitals $170 billion, which represents 46 percent of all fee-for-service payments for the year.

For our final report on the audit of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) regarding foreign end users and exports, our objective was to assess the effectiveness of BIS’ efforts to ensure foreign end users are suitable to receive and use controlled U.S. exports in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations. As a result of audit planning, we decided to focus on assessing BIS’ plan to target end-use checks (EUCs). Specifically, we sought to identify whether BIS had criteria to target EUCs and assess how well it adhered to them in FYs 2015–2017.We found that BIS (1) is unable to adequately determine whether EUCs met its targeting criteria and (2) did not fully screen export transactions that used the Strategic Trade Authorization license exception.