Federal Reports

Congress authorized the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to receive $48 billion in funding for the 5-year period beginning October 1, 2008, to assist foreign countries in combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Congress authorized additional funds to be appropriated through 2018.

With respect to Medicaid patient days, Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) did not properly settle for Federal fiscal years (FYs) 2010 through 2012 Medicare cost reports submitted by inpatient hospitals in Missouri (Missouri providers) for Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments in accordance with Federal requirements. The 20 settled Medicare cost reports that Missouri providers submitted for FYs 2010 through 2012 reflected 612,517 Medicaid patient days. The 10 selected providers (with those 20 associated cost reports) improperly claimed a total of 7,132 Medicaid patient days on their cost reports, resulting in DSH overpayments totaling $3.0 million. These improper claims included both unallowable and unsupported Medicaid patient days and involved patients in the excluded categories of family planning and family planning-related services, the Children's Health Insurance Program, temporary prenatal care services, State-only programs, patients who did not meet the designated spenddown requirements to qualify for spenddown programs, and dual eligibility.

NARA OIG contracted with the independent certified public accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP to review NARA’s readiness to implement the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014

The audit objective was to evaluate NARA’s controls in place to achieve its Strategic Goal of “Make Access Happen” by providing online access to its digitized holdings through the National Archives Catalog