Open Recommendations

Align programs and/or activities with applicable reporting requirements.

Report programs and/or activities in accordance with applicable Federal criteria.

Provide training to CPSC program managers on how to develop and implement a formal internal controls program in accordance with Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government, OMB Circular A-123, and CPSC policies and procedures.

Develop a formal internal controls program over operations for CPSC programs.

Establish formal lines of communication between the Office of Financial Management, Planning and Evaluation and CPSC program management for the purpose of assessing and monitoring internal control programs and compliance with FMFIA requirements.

Develop and incorporate metrics on the National Enforcement Investigations Center work environment and culture into Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics, and Training senior management performance standards, such as results from the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, periodic culture audits, or other methods to measure progress.

Develop and incorporate metrics that address work environment andculture into National Enforcement Investigations Center senior management performance standards.

Standardize acquisition and assistance award requirements to include (a) codes of conduct specific to sexual exploitation and abuse for all implementers and (b) requirements for implementers to review and certify that subimplementers establish sexual exploitation and abuse-related internal controls and codes of conduct.

Issue guidance to Agency staff on roles and responsibilities for assessing implementers' internal controls designed to protect beneficiaries from sexual exploitation and abuse when conducting pre-award risk assessments.

We recommend that the NPS coordinate with the PRSHPO to develop and implement a labor distribution report that includes all appropriate information such as employee name, project number, employee identification number, total hours worked, hours absent, hourly rate, wage earned, indirect expenses applied, and benefits accrued.

Evaluate the obstacles to implementing the Clean Water Act to controltrash in U.S. waterways and provide a public report describing those obstacles.

Develop and disseminate strategies to states and municipalities for addressing the obstacles identified in the evaluation from Recommendation 1. These strategies may include guidance regarding how to develop narrative water quality criteria, consistent assessment and measurement methodologies, and total maximum daily loads for trash pollution.

We recommend that the New York State Department of Health refund $9,325,338 to the Federal Government

We recommend that the New York State Department of Health identify and recover improper managed care payments made to the same MCO on behalf of beneficiaries with more than one Medicaid ID number prior to and after our audit period, and repay the Federal share of the amounts recovered

We recommend that the New York State Department of Health ensure that improvements made to its processes for determining whether an individual applying for Medicaid has already been assigned a Medicaid ID number are effective by verifying that: - system queries are adequate to identify all individuals with existing Medicaid ID numbers and - local district and Marketplace staff are following guidance on identifying individuals with Medicaid ID numbers and using all available resources to identify and prevent the issuance of more than one Medicaid ID number to the same individual.

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services direct the Medicare contractors to educate providers on the billing of direct LDL tests in addition to lipid panels (e.g., by providing guidance about the requirements for separately billing direct LDL tests).

We recommend that Suncoast Hospice refund to the Federal Government the portion of the estimated $47,363,971 for hospice services that did not comply with Medicare requirements and that are within the 4-year claims reopening period.

We recommend that Suncoast Hospice strengthen its policies and procedures to ensure that hospice services comply with Medicare requirements.

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Conduct new residual risk reviews for Group I polymers and resins that cover neoprene production, synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry, polyether polyols production, commercial sterilizers, and hospital sterilizers using the new risk values for chloroprene and ethylene oxide and revise the corresponding National Emission Standards for HazardousAir Pollutants, as needed.

Revise National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for chemical manufacturing area sources to regulate ethylene oxide andconduct a residual risk review to ensure that the public is not exposed to unacceptable risks.

Conduct overdue technology reviews for Group I polymers and resins that cover neoprene production, synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry, commercial sterilizers, hospital sterilizers, and chemical manufacturing area sources, which are required to be completed at leastevery eight years by the Clean Air Act.