Open Recommendations

Return to the Puerto Rico Department of Housing $1,057,467, plus any interest earned, for the duplicate special escrow fund payments it received.

Risk Management

FDA should develop a policy for defining and a procedure for identifying retrospectively the date that FDA learns of a potentially hazardous product and consider adding a field for the date to the RES or another FDA system so that FDA staff involved in managing a recall have access to this information

#4 - We recommend that FDA ensure, through its recall audit plan, that audit checks are issued at the level specified in the FDA audit program.

We recommend that the State agency work with CMS to ensure that Maximus contract costs claimed after our audit period are properly allocated.

We recommend that the State agency refund to CMS $19,586,165 for costs that may have been misallocated to the establishment grants or work with CMS to determine the appropriate allocation to the grants.

We recommend that the State agency refund to CMS $797,096 for unallowable profit fees or work with CMS to determine the appropriate amount that should have been claimed to the grants.

We recommend that the State agency refund to CMS $32,083 for unallowable G&A costs and related profit fees.

Ensure that the adjudication vendor is able to reproduce on demand all necessary data elements used to adjudicate the claims (e.g., DRG, all procedure codes, and drug information). The universe of claims data should be available to BOP on a national scale in a format that allows for thorough analysis and oversight regardless of institution.

Move immediately to require all CMS contractors to submit electronic claims.

Ensure those claims are properly analyzed and maintained by BOP's adjudication vendor.

Enforce existing contract language that requires the adjudication vendor to perform fraud analytics and report any indicators of fraud to the BOP.

Adequately support or reimburse its NSP3 grant subrecipient $53,760 from non-Federal funds for the disbursements not adequately supported.

(U) Rec. B.2: Recommendation is Classified.

Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment issue policy to replace the Army Interim Guidance and direct the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to update Engineering Pamphlet 75-1-3 to comply with Army Regulation 25-30.

Rec. B.1.f: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Army take prompt action to direct the U.S. Army Provost Marshal General to revise Army Regulation 190-45 to align with the fingerprint card and final disposition report submission requirements in DoD Instruction 5505.11.

Rec. D.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy immediately and comprehensively review all Navy Security Forces criminal investigative databases and files to ensure that all fingerprint cards and final disposition reports for anyone investigated for, or convicted of, qualifying offenses before 1998 have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Service in compliance with DoD and Federal Bureau of Investigation requirements.

Rec. D.1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy take prompt action to ensure that Navy Security Forces command, supervisory, and management oversight controls verify compliance with fingerprint card and final disposition report submission requirements and ensure that such compliance is included as a special interest item in future Inspector General inspections and is actually conducted.

Rec. D.1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy take prompt action to ensure that other required investigative and criminal history information, such as criminal incident data and Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) samples, has been submitted for inclusion in Federal Bureau of Investigation databases.

Rec. F.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Air Force immediately and comprehensively review all Air Force Security Forces criminal investigative databases and files to ensure that all fingerprint cards and final disposition reports for anyone investigated for, or convicted of, qualifying offenses before 1998 have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services in compliance with DoD and Federal Bureau of Investigation requirements.

Rec. G.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy and Commandant of the Marine Corps immediately and comprehensively review all Marine Corps criminal investigative databases and files to ensure that all fingerprint cards and final disposition reports for anyone investigated for, or convicted of, qualifying offenses before 1998 have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services in compliance with DoD and Federal Bureau Investigation requirements.

Rec. G.1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretary of the Navy and Commandant of the Marine Corps take prompt action to ensure that other required investigative and criminal history information, such as criminal incident data and Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) samples, has been submitted for inclusion in Federal Bureau of Investigation databases.