Reports

• CMS Should Take Additional Actions To Help Hospitals Prepare for a Future Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak

  

• North Carolina Could Better Ensure That Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities Comply With Federal Requirements for Life Safety and Infection Control

  

• Pennsylvania Made More Than $8.7 Million in Unallowable Capitation Payments for Enrollees With Multiple Medicaid Identification Numbers

  

• Wisconsin Physicians Service Government Health Administrators Reopened and Corrected Cost Report Final Settlements for Desk Reviews Only With Obvious Errors To Correct Payments Made to Medicare Providers

  

• Kentucky Did Not Meet All of the Requirements for the COVID-19 Screening Testing Program at K-12 Schools

  

• ASPR Established Adequate Controls for Maintaining Physical Security and Inventory Records at Stockpile Site E

  

• Oklahoma Could Better Ensure That Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities Comply With Federal Requirements for Life Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Infection Control

  

• Wisconsin Made at Least $18.5 Million in Improper Fee-For-Service Medicaid Payments for Applied Behavior Analysis Provided to Children Diagnoses With Autism

  

• Medicare Home Health Agency Provider Compliance Audit: Sunflower Home Health

  

• A Large Northeastern Hospital Could Improve Certain Security Controls for Preventing and Detecting Cyberattacks

  

• Medicare Home Health Agency Provider Compliance Audit: HRS Home Health

  

• Availability of Surveyed Behavioral Health Providers to Treat New Patients Enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid

  

• CMS Should Improve Its Methodology for Collecting Medicare Postoperative Visit Data on Global Surgeries

  

• Michigan Did Not Effectively Monitor Home Heating Benefits Provided Under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program

  

• Department of Health and Human Services’ Hybrid Work Environment as of May 2024

  

• Part D Plans Generally Include Drugs Commonly Used by Dual-Eligible Enrollees: 2025

  

• 2024 Performance Data for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects

  

• Maine Could Better Ensure That Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities Comply With Federal Requirements for Life Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Infection Control

  

• Eleven of Thirty Selected Hospitals Did Not Comply With Terms and Conditions and Federal Requirements for Expending Provider Relief Fund Payments

  

• Ten of Thirty Selected Nursing Facilities Did Not Comply or May Not Have Complied With Terms and Conditions and Federal Requirements for Expending Provider Relief Fund Payments