Recommendations Tracker

We recommend that BCFS HHS install video monitoring equipment in the intake common area of the shelter to help ensure oversight of UAC during the intake process.

We recommend that BCFS HHS develop procedures to ensure that staff are aware of the requirements for the contents of first aid kits and periodically check the kits to ensure compliance with Texas minimum standards.

We recommend that BCFS HHS strengthen its oversight of foster care homes to ensure foster parents are aware of, and are complying with, Texas DFPS Minimum Standards for Child-Placing Agencies Condensed Version for Foster Parents for health and safety.

We recommend that BCFS HHS strengthen existing procedures to ensure all initial intakes assessments, initial medical exams, and UAC assessments are completed in a timely manner; that adequate documentation is maintained; and that the completed dates for the UAC assessment are captured in the case file.

We recommend that BCFS HHS implement quality control procedures to ensure the discharge information in the case file matches the data entered into the ORR UAC Portal.

We recommend that BCFS HHS ensure that reunification information reported to ORR is accurate and can be supported.

We recommend that CMS instruct all State agencies to review, revise, develop, and implement policies and procedures to monitor the SDAC and SBHS programs in their States and thereby ensure that claimed SDAC and SBHS costs comply with Federal requirements with respect to reasonableness, allowability, and supportability; State agencies obtain DCA approval for their cost allocation plans before submitting their RMTS methodologies to CMS for approval; RMTS methodologies comply with Federal requirements for statistical validity, reliability, and allowability and are always submitted to CMS for approval before being implemented; RMTS responses are properly coded and include documentation adequate to support activities performed that were reimbursable by Medicaid and to permit reproduction and verification of sample results; and random moment samples generated through RMTS reflect all of the time and activities performed by employees participating in SDAC and SBHS and do not reflect times whe

Recover from hospitals the portion of the estimated $5,736,313 in identified overpayments for claims incorrectly billed that are within the reopening period.

Identify and recover any additional similar overpayments for IMRT services made after the audit period.

Educate hospitals on properly billing Medicare for IMRT planning services

NIH update RML's and IRF's security plans to include procedures for notifying FSAP if a select agent shipment is not received within 48 hours of the expected time of delivery.

NIH update RML's and IRF's security plans to include procedures for notifying FSAP if a select agent shipment will not be completed within 30 calendar days after transfer authorization issuance or transfer authorization becomes void because the facts supporting the authorization changed.

AHRQ should collaborate with CMS to create and disseminate a list of potential adverse events in LTCHs.

CMS should include information about potential events and patient harm in its quality outreach to LTCHs.

We recommended that SANOS refunds the $4,000 to the Federal government.

Direct the Medicare contractors to recover the $34,014,796 in identified improper payments to suppliers in accordance with CMS's policies and procedures and recommend that the suppliers refund to beneficiaries up to $8,702,539 in deductible and coinsurance amounts that may have been incorrectly collected from them or from someone on their behalf

We recommend that CMS take all necessary actions, including seeking legislative authority, to require suppliers to refund to beneficiaries incorrectly collected Medicare Part B deductible and coinsurance amounts for items and services reimbursable under Medicare Part A.

If the CWF edits had been designed properly since CY 2008, Medicare could have saved $223.1 million, and beneficiaries could have saved $56.3 million in deductibles and coinsurance that may have been incorrectly collected from them or from someone on their behalf.

We recommend that CMS continue to strengthen its internal controls to ensure that all PDE data for terminated drugs are rejected by working with FDA to verify the accuracy of drug termination dates, to include comparing the information on termination dates in its quarterly Medicaid drug rebate files with the information in the NSDE file, investigating discrepancies between the two data sources, and verifying termination dates with the drug manufacturers when discrepancies are identified.

We recommend that the Penobscot Nation ensure that PNHD is under the medical direction of a physician who performs all of the duties required in the job description and in accordance with Federal and Tribal requirements.

We recommend that the Penobscot Nation conduct annual program evaluations in accordance with Federal requirements, review the results of the program evaluations, and take corrective actions as appropriate.

We recommend that the Penobscot Nation establish a preventative maintenance program for the facility and medical equipment to ensure that it provides a safe, clean, and accessible environment.

We recommend that CMS conduct a documented risk assessment and determine how the disparate application of Federal security requirements impacts cybersecurity risk for Medicaid data maintained by MCOs and, what actions should be taken to address any oversight gap (e.g., include an additional requirement in the State Plan that obligates States to be specifically responsible for ensuring data at MCOs is protected).

We recommend that the State agency investigate each potentially improper dental fee-for-service claim and refund up to $33,996 to the Federal Government, as appropriate.

We recommend that the State agency amend the NYCRR and State agency program guidelines to prohibit the separate Medicaid reimbursement of clinic dental claims, which may have saved as much as $635,011 during our audit period, for services provided to beneficiaries who reside in nursing facilities and residential treatment centers.

We recommend that CMS and the Secretary revisit the plan to comprehensively reform the hospital wage index system, including the previously researched option of a commuting-based wage index.

We recommend that, if there is no movement toward comprehensive reform, CMS work with the MACs to develop a program of in-depth wage data audits at a limited number of hospitals each year, focusing on hospitals whose wage data has a high level of influence on the wage index of their area.

We recommend that CMS seek legislation to repeal the hold-harmless provisions in the Act relating to the wage data of reclassifying hospitals, which would allow CMS to calculate each area wage index based on the wage data of hospitals that reclassify into the area and the wage data of hospitals geographically located in the area if they do not reclassify out.

Recover from hospitals the portion of the estimated $7,230,420 in identified improper payments for claims incorrectly billed that are within the reopening period.

Identify and recover any additional similar overpayments for IMRT services made after the audit period.

Educate hospitals on properly billing Medicare for IMRT planning services.

We recommend that CMS re-evaluate the effects of the health-care-related tax safe-harbor threshold and the associated 75/75 requirement to determine if modifications are needed, such as the reduction or elimination of the safe harbor threshold or adjusting the 75/75 requirement, and take appropriate action.

We recommend that NGS increase Plan A Medicare segment assets by $21,152 and recognize $8,778,177 as the plan A Medicare segment pension assets as of January 1, 2015.

We recommend that NGS revise its FACPs for FYs 2010 through 2013 to reduce its claimed Medicare pension costs by $763,067.

We recommend that NGS revise its FACPs for FYs 2010 through 2013 to increase its claimed Medicare PRB costs by $1,148,536.

We recommend that Northwestern establish policies to perform subrecipient risk assessments for affiliates, FDP members, and non-Federal subrecipients subject to 45 CFR part 75.

We recommend that CMS take steps to ensure that no resident is counted as more than one FTE. This could include implementing procedures to analyze MACs' IRIS data or requiring MACs to determine if residents claimed by hospitals in their jurisdiction were claimed as more than one FTE.

We recommend that FDA continually assess the cybersecurity risks to medical devices and update, as appropriate, its plans and strategies.

We recommend that FDA enter into a formal agreement with Federal agency partners, namely the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, establishing roles and responsibilities as well as the support those agencies will provide to further FDA's mission related to medical device cybersecurity.