Federal Reports

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated a survey of the United States Capitol Police (USCP or Department) Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT). Our objective was to solicit and assess feedback from senior officials related to CERT's operations; thereby identifying areas of concern for future work.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (State agency) did not comply with Federal Medicaid waiver and State requirements for reporting and monitoring critical incidents involving Medicaid beneficiaries with developmental disabilities residing in community residences. The State agency did not fulfill many of the participant safeguard assurances it provided to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its Medicaid waiver. Specifically, the State agency did not (1) ensure that community-based providers reported all critical incidents to the State agency; (2) ensure that community-based providers conducted administrative reviews of all critical incidents involving serious injuries, dangerous situations, or suicidal acts and submitted their findings within 30 days; (3) report appropriately all restraint usage and rights violations to Disability Rights Maine (DRM); (4) review and analyze data on all critical incidents; (5) investigate and report immediately to the appropriate district attorney's office or to law enforcement all critical incidents involving suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation; and (6) ensure that community-based providers reported all beneficiary deaths to the State agency appropriately and that the State agency analyzed, investigated, and reported the deaths to law enforcement or Maine's Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).

A Brooklyn chiropractor received at least $672,000 over 2 years for chiropractic services that were not allowable in accordance with Medicare requirements.

This summary report provides an overview of the results of our audit of the information system general controls over the New Mexico Medicaid eligibility systems. It does not include specific details of the vulnerabilities that we identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. We have provided more detailed information and recommendations to New Mexico so that it can address the issues we identified. The findings listed in this summary report reflect a point in time regarding system security and may have changed since we reviewed these systems.