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Recommendations Tracker

HHS-OIG provides independent and objective oversight that promotes economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in HHS programs and operations. To drive positive change, we produce reports and identify recommendations for improvement. We have developed this public-facing page for tracking all of our open recommendations. Learn More

Summary of Recommendations Data

Updated Monthly · Last updated on September 16, 2024

1,350

Unimplemented
recommendations

$281.0B

Potential savingsfrom unimplemented recommendations

2,589

Implemented and Closed
recommendations
since FY 2017

OIG Recommendations Grouped by Report

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Showing 1–20 of 1,200 reports, containing 3,939 recommendations Sorted by latest release date
  • Most Children in Foster Care Did Not Receive Credit Checks and Assistance

  • Massachusetts Opioid Treatment Program Services Met Many of the Federal and State Requirements

  • South Carolina Did Not Always Invoice Rebates to Manufacturers for Physician-Administered Drugs Dispensed to Enrollees of Medicaid Managed-Care Organizations

  • Utah Generally Completed Medicaid Eligibility Actions During the Unwinding Period in Accordance With Federal and State Requirements

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

  • Kansas’s Implemented Electronic Visit Verification System Could Be Improved

  • Certain For-Profit Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied With Federal Requirements Regarding the Infection Preventionist Position

  • Illinois MMIS and E&E System Had Adequate Security Controls in Place, but Some Improvements Are Needed

  • Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Diagnosis Codes That MMM Healthcare, LLC, (Contract H4003) Submitted to CMS

  • Massachusetts Generally Completed Medicaid Eligibility Actions During the Unwinding Period in Accordance With Federal and State Requirements

  • Medicare Improperly Paid Hospitals an Estimated $79 Million for Enrollees Who Had Received Mechanical Ventilation

  • Opioid Treatment Programs in Washington State Did Not Fully Comply With Federal and State Requirements, Which May Have Put Medicaid Enrollees at Risk for Poor Treatment Outcomes

  • Alaska Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: 2023 Inspection

  • Heluna Health May Not Have Used California’s CDC COVID-19 Funds in Accordance With Award Requirements

  • California Made Capitation Payments for Enrollees Who Were Concurrently Enrolled in a Medicaid Managed Care Program in Another State

  • West Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: 2023 Inspection

  • HHS Office of the Secretary Needs to Improve Key Security Controls to Better Protect Certain Cloud Information Systems

  • ASPR Did Not Consistently Comply With Federal Requirements for Awarding Research and Development Contracts

  • Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Specific Diagnosis Codes That Independent Health Association, Inc. (Contract H3362) Submitted to CMS

  • Review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 for Fiscal Year 2023