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Department of Health & Human Services
CGS Administrators, LLC, Overstated Its CIGNA Pension Plan Medicare Segment Pension Assets and Understated Medicare's Share of Excess Pension Liabilities
CGS Administrators, LLC (CGS), overstated the Medicare segment pension assets by $1.3 million as of May 31, 2011. In addition, CGS understated Medicare's share of the Medicare segment excess pension liabilities by $748,000 as of May 31, 2011, as a result of the Medicare segment closing.
CGS Administrators, LLC, Understated Its CIGNA Pension Plan for Certain Former Employees Medicare Segment Pension Assets and Understated Medicare's Share of Excess Pension Assets
CGS Administrators, LLC (CGS), understated the Medicare segment pension assets by $311,000 as of May 31, 2011. In addition, CGS understated Medicare's share of the Medicare segment excess pension assets by $309,000 as of May 31, 2011, as a result of the Medicare segment closing.
Federal Trade Commission’s Fiscal Year 2016 Compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 in the Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Financial Report. No. AR-17-01
Accurate data are fundamental to CMS's quality-based payment programs, including Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR). This evaluation focuses on CMS's efforts to ensure the integrity of IQR data. IQR data are used to adjust payments on the basis of quality measures, so inaccurate data poses risks to payment accuracy. CMS and CDC issued a Joint Reminder regarding their concerns about data being manipulated, or gamed, by hospital staff's not following CDC definitions for reportable infections.
After years of dwindling mail and booming e-commerce parcels volume, it is easy to overlook the mail business’ actual strategic relevance and financial sustainability. The OIG and WIK-Consult found that mail still matters. In nearly all the posts analyzed it has remained a remarkably resilient and profitable line of business. To maintain mail profitability, posts took advantage of flexible regulatory environments and government support which allowed them to raise prices and/or decrease their operating expenses.
