Reports

• California Used CARES Act Funds for Unallowable Nutrition Services Program Expenditures

  

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

  

• Medicare Advantage Questionable Use of Health Risk Assessments Continues To Drive Up Payments to Plans by Billions

  

• Medicare Part D Paid Millions for Drugs for Which Payment Was Available Under the Medicare Part A Skilled Nursing Facility Benefit

  

• Massachusetts Could Better Ensure That Nursing Homes Comply With Federal Requirements for Life Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Infection Control

  

• Review of Medicare Administrative Contractor Information Security Program Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2023

  

• HHS Continues to Make Progress Toward Compliance With the Geospatial Data Act

  

• States Could Better Leverage Coverage and Access Requirements To Promote Maternal Health Care Access in Medicaid Managed Care

  

• ASPR Established Adequate Controls for Maintaining Physical Security Over Stockpile Site A, but Some Inventory Discrepancies Were Identified

  

• Gallup Indian Medical Center—an IHS-Operated Health Facility—Did Not Timely Conduct Required Background Checks of Staff and Supervise Certain Staff

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Diagnosis Codes That EmblemHealth (Contract H3330) Submitted to CMS

  

• Systemic and Operational Challenges Hinder Efforts to Ensure HIV Care for Medicaid Enrollees

  

• Additional Oversight of Remote Patient Monitoring in Medicare Is Needed

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Specific Diagnosis Codes That HealthAssurance, Pennsylvania, Inc. (Contract R5826) Submitted to CMS

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Specific Diagnosis Codes That Humana Health Plan, Inc. (Contract H2649) Submitted to CMS

  

• CMS Recovered Medicare Payments to Providers Under the COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments Program in Compliance With Federal Requirements

  

• Medicare and Medicaid Enrollees in Many High-Need Areas May Lack Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

  

• Medicare Part B Drug Payments: Impact of Price Substitutions Based on 2022 Average Sales Prices

  

• Novitas Solutions, Inc., Reopened and Corrected Cost Report Final Settlements With Obvious Errors To Collect Overpayments Made to Medicare Providers

  

• New Mexico Did Not Ensure Attendants Were Qualified To Provide Personal Care Services, Putting Medicaid Enrollees at Risk