Open Recommendations

We recommend the Deputy Chief Financial Officer develop policies and procedures to ensure all non-GAAP policies are identified and reported to the Division of Financial Reporting timely.

We recommend the Director of the Division of Federal Employees’, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation design and implement monitoring procedures to periodically review control activities for effectiveness and develop action steps as appropriate based on such results.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for ETA design and implement monitoring controls to ensure Federal Project Officer responses are obtained and reviewed for all delinquent cost reports.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for ETA design and implement monitoring controls to enforce current policies and procedures for Federal Project Officers to timely review cost reports.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer perform an analysis of the other operating system servers within the U.S. Department of Labor environment to determine if other servers were incorrectly configured.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer implement the proper configurations for the impacted operating system servers.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer configure the systems to adhere to the password requirements from the U.S. Department of Labor Cybersecurity Policy Portfolio.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer implement monitoring controls to periodically assess security configurations in the systems to determine adherence to the U.S. Department of Labor Cybersecurity Policy Portfolio.

We recommend the Assistance Secretary for Administrations and Management and the Acting Chief Information Officer perform risk assessments in order to design and implement procedures for effective internal communication over access provisioning controls.

We recommend the Assistance Secretary for Administrations and Management and the Acting Chief Information Officer design and implement controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the users and user roles used in the semi-annual privileged access reviews and reauthorizations.

We recommend the Assistance Secretary for Administrations and Management and the Acting Chief Information Officer design and implement controls to monitor the deprovisioning of system users access to ensure such access is removed in accordance with DOL policies, and enforce adherence to DOL’s policies over the timely removal of inactive accounts.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures that required suicide risk and intervention training includes suicide risk identification screening and evaluation requirements, procedures, and instruction.

The Under Secretary for Health considers establishing benchmarks for suicide risk screening and evaluation that reflect the clinical importance of suicide risk identification requirements and takes action as warranted.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures monitoring of adherence to suicide risk identification screening and evaluation setting-specific requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures actions taken to address barriers to completing suicide risk screening and evaluation are effective to increase adherence to annual and setting-specific requirements in all clinical settings.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures non-mental health clinical specialty leaders are aware of and adherent to the suicide risk identification screening and evaluation requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures clearly identified responsibilities for suicide risk identification screening and evaluation adherence monitoring and oversight.

Conduct outreach to affected customers notifying them of the changes to optimized offices and impacts to service.

Develop and maintain detailed documentation outlining the cost savings resulting from the Local Transportation Optimization implementation for each region and include a comparison to planned savings.

we recommend that USAID:
Communicate with APL CEVA Government Logistics and establish a mechanism to reemphasize and clarify the safety provisions in its contract that it must adhere to for Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance operations at the Dubai warehouse, including the use of personal protective equipment for eye, head, and hand protection.

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services require the MACs to include, as part of the normal desk review or audit process, a review of reporting and disclosure of related-party costs.

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services develop and implement guidance for skilled nursing facilities on the appropriate methods for providers to determine their allowable related-party costs.

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provide guidance to reeducate Medicare Administrative Contractors on the need to review, grant, and document requests from skilled nursing facilities for exceptions to cost reporting requirements in compliance with 42 CFR § 413.17(d).

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services require the MACs to include, as part of the normal desk review or audit process, a review of reporting and disclosure of related-party costs.

We recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services develop and implement guidance for skilled nursing facilities on the appropriate methods for providers to determine their allowable related-party costs.