Open Recommendations

Rec. B.3.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commandant of the Marine Corps revise guidance to separate non-relocatable buildings from properly classified relocatable buildings within the Internet Navy Facility Assets Data Store system for tracking all facilities if fire and emergency services are needed.

Rec. B.4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Chief of Naval Operations revise the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Instruction 11010.33C to reflect updates made to Department of Defense Instruction 4165.56 and train Department of Public Works personnel on the proper classification of relocatable buildings.

Implement controls to continuously monitor and work with components to ensure network administrators are informed and action is taken to disable system accounts when users no longer require access or have been inactive beyond established thresholds.

Implement processes verifying that personnel performing certain security related roles receive specialized training needed to meet OCIO guidance.

CMS should ensure that MAOs submit rendering provider identifiers for applicable records.

CMS should track MAOs' response to reject edits

Revise the Emergency Relief Manual to include a definition of resilience improvement and identify procedures States should use to incorporate resilience into ERP-funded projects.

Develop and implement a process to track the consideration of resilience improvements for emergency relief projects and their associated costs.

Ensure the CNCS GSS Information System Owner establishes and enforces the policy for mobile devices that do not connect to the CNCS GSS to include usage restrictions, configuration and connection requirements, and implementation guidance. (New);

Track and ensure that Volunteers returns to the Treasury any funds recovered through the ongoing litigation pertaining to the Yabucoa housing project.

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.