Reports

• During Hurricanes Fiona and Ian, HHS Helped Minimize Disruptions to Medical Services at Select Health Care Facilities

  

• Medicare Part B Drug Payments: Impact of Price Substitutions Based on 2023 Average Sales Prices

  

• Florida Did Not Fully Comply With Federal Reporting and Oversight Requirements for Its Opioid Response Grant

  

• Analysis of Selected Nursing Facilities’ Use of Medicaid Reimbursement for Direct Care Compensation

  

• Medicare Could Have Saved an Estimated $17.7 Million if CMS’s Oversight Had Prevented At-Risk Payments for Anesthesia Administered During Spinal Pain Management Procedures

  

• Hospitals Reported Few Captured Patient Harm Events to CMS and States

  

• Hospitals Did Not Capture Half of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information Needed to Make Care Safer

  

• 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