Compendium of Unimplemented Office of Inspector General Recommendations (2009)

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), is pleased to present the"Compendium of Unimplemented Office of Inspector General Recommendations"(Compendium). The Compendium consolidates significant1 unimplemented monetary and nonmonetary recommendations addressed to the Department into one publication2 providing information to interested parties about outstanding recommendations, that, if implemented, have the potential to result in cost savings and improvements to program efficiency and effectiveness. These recommendations resulted from our audits and evaluations that were performed pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978 (P.L. No. 95-452), as amended. Recommendations require one of, or a combination of, three types of actions: legislative, regulatory, or administrative. Some issues involve more than one type of action. As part of our effort to track unimplemented recommendations, we perform routine follow-up with the Department to determine the status of actions being taken in response to our recommendations. This publication includes information about recommendations that had not been fully implemented as of December 31, 2008.

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