Open Recommendations

Require the Chicago PD to perform an in-depth review of its equitable sharing financial
activity and either: (1) provide detailed documentation to support its existing FY 2019 and
FY 2020 ESAC submissions, or (2) submit amended ESACs along with detailed documentation
to support the balance and expenditure figures reported.

We recommend that Sleep Management refund to the Federal Government the portion of the estimated $29,131,187 in Medicare overpayments for claim lines incorrectly billed that are within the 4-year reopening period.

We recommend that Sleep Management follow existing policies and procedures to help ensure that it: (1) obtains medical record documentation that is sufficient to satisfy Medicare medical necessity requirements and (2) discontinues service when beneficiaries do not continually use the device.

Establish and operate monitoring activities, including ongoing monitoring, separate evaluations, or a combination of the two to obtain reasonable assurance of the operating effectiveness of FSA’s verification control activities

Establish processes to ensure that FSA management evaluates and documents corrective actions, including when corrective actions are not taken, for verification control weaknesses identified by monitoring activities.

For issues identified with its verification control activities in the 2018 ERM Report and other monitoring activities, ensure that FSA management evaluates and documents corrective actions, or if corrective actions are not warranted.

Conduct periodic reviews of the level of basic essential air service in accordance with Federal regulations.

We recommend that the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance work with its local districts and TANF-funded State programs to develop financial management procedures that would enable the State agency to determine if TANF and MOE expenditures are accurately reported to ACF, including the $4.8 billion in TANF and MOE expenditures reported for FY 2016.

We recommend that the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance improve its oversight of the TANF program by providing additional guidance and training to ensure that its local districts accurately report expenditures and maintain adequate documentation to support TANF and MOE expenditures reported.

We recommend that Franciscan: Refund to the Federal Government the portion of the estimated $13,027,841 for hospice services that did not comply with Medicare requirements and that are within the 4-year reopening period.

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

(U) Rec. 6.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in conjunction with the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and U.S. Special Operations Command, develop a plan of action and milestones to establish policies related to the capability of United States defense contractors to meet DoD Counter Threat Finance mission needs.

(U) Rec. 6.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in conjunction with the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and U.S. Special Operations Command, develop a plan of action and milestones to coordinate with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence on innovative uses of technology to address intelligence-related Counter Threat Finance issues.

(U) Rec. 7: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, in conjunction with U.S. Special Operations Command, develop a plan of action and milestones to implement the Counter Threat Finance Department of Defense Instruction as outlined in the approved Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy Change recommendation, which includes: 1. Developing a common lexicon for Counter Threat Finance. 2. Establishing procedures for nominating targets for sanctions and designations. 3. Establishing procedures for coordinating and executing Counter Threat Finance activities across organizational and geographic boundaries. 4. Developing clearly stated objectives for use in…

Recommendation 4 (Rolled Forward from FYs 2017 to 2019)11 We recommend that Retirement Services develop and implement additional cost effective corrective actions, aimed at the root causes of improper payments, to further reduce the improper payments rate.

We recommend the DHS Office of the Secretary establish an oversight structure with central policy guidance and direction to ensure DHS law enforcement components comply with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005and 28 C.F.R. § 28.12.

We recommend the DHS Office of the Secretary ensure ICE, FPS, CBP, and TSA fully implement DNA collection for arrestees and nonU.S. detainees to comply with the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 and 28 C.F.R § 28.12.

We recommend the DHS Office of the Secretary ensure ICE, FPS, CBP, and TSA implement internal controls, including modifying booking systems to track and verify DNA collection. If components pursue memorandums of agreement with other agencies to collect DNA samples, they must implement internal controls to track and verify DNA collection.

We recommend the Acting Director of ICE ensure that before removing parents who have minor children in the United States, ICE staff document and obtain supervisory acknowledgement for each parent’s preference for whether the children should remain in the United States or be removed with the parent.

We recommend that Alive Hospice, Inc.: • refund to the Federal Government the portion of the estimated $7,389,854 for hospice services that did not comply with Medicare requirements and that are within the 4-year reopening period

We recommend that Alive Hospice, Inc.: • based upon the results of this audit, exercise reasonable diligence to identify, report, and return any overpayments in accordance with the 60-day rule and identify any of those returned overpayments as having been made in accordance with this recommendation; and

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

We recommend that Ambercare Hospice, Inc. based upon the results of this audit, exercise reasonable diligence to identify, report, and return any overpayments in accordance with the 60-day rule and identify any of those returned overpayments as having been made in accordance with this recommendation; and

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

HHS should continue to work with OMB and other stakeholders to develop and implement an approach to reporting on CDC and OHS Disaster Relief improper payments in FY 2021