Reports

• New York Claimed $196 Million, Over 72 Percent of the Audited Amount, in Federal Reimbursement for NEMT Payments to New York City Transportation Providers That Did Not Meet or May Not Have Met Medicaid Requirements

  

• The IHS Telehealth System Was Deployed Without Some Required Cybersecurity Controls

  

• Medicare Telehealth Services During the First Year of the Pandemic: Program Integrity Risks

  

• Certain Medicare Beneficiaries, Such as Urban and Hispanic Beneficiaries, Were More Likely Than Others To Use Telehealth During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

• Reducing Medicare Payment Rates for Intermittent Urinary Catheters Can Save the Program and Beneficiaries Millions of Dollars Each Year

  

• Foreign Assistance to Combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Fiscal Year 2023 Inspectors General Coordinated PEPFAR Oversight Plan U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Specific Diagnosis Codes That WellCare of Florida, Inc., (Contract H1032) Submitted to CMS

  

• Montana Claimed Federal Medicaid Reimbursement for More Than $5 Million in Targeted Case Management Services That Did Not Comply With Federal and State Requirements

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Diagnosis Codes That Cigna HealthSpring of Florida, Inc. (Contract H5410) Submitted to CMS

  

• Advisory Opinion 22-16

  

• The National Institutes of Health Did Not Ensure That All Clinical Trial Results Were Reported in Accordance With Federal Requirements

  

• Part D Plan Preference for Higher-Cost Hepatitis C Drugs Led to Higher Medicare and Beneficiary Spending

  

• Review of Medicare Administrative Contractor Information Security Program Evaluations for Fiscal Year 2021

  

• Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements for Infection Prevention and Control and Emergency Preparedness

  

• CMS Reported Collecting Just Over Half of the $498 Million in Medicare Overpayments Identified by OIG Audits

  

• Medicare Critical Care Services Provider Compliance Audit: Lahey Clinic, Inc.

  

• Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Specific Diagnosis Codes That Cariten Health Plan, Inc., (Contract H4461) Submitted to CMS

  

• Audits of Nursing Home Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness in Eight States Identified Noncompliance With Federal Requirements and Opportunities for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Improve Resident, Visitor, and Staff Safety

  

• CDC Found Ways To Use Data To Understand and Address COVID-19 Health Disparities, Despite Challenges With Existing Data

  

• Medicare Hospice Provider Compliance Audit: Vitas Healthcare Corporation of Florida