Author: Kay L. Daly
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: improper, payments, reducing, testimony, estimating, congressional, challenges, progress, made, remain
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2010-02
ISBN-10: 1437916821
ISBN-13: 9781437916829

Improper payments are a long-standing, widespread, and significant problem in the fed. gov¿t. The Improper Payments Info. Act of 2002 (IPIA) has increased visibility over improper payments by requiring exec. branch agency heads to identify programs and activities susceptible to significant improper payments, estimate amounts improperly paid, and report on the amounts of improper payments and their actions to reduce them. This testimony addresses: (1) progress made in agencies' implementation of IPIA for FY 2008; and (2) several major challenges that continue to hinder full reporting of IPIA i

Author: Gregory D. Kutz
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: premium, travel, class, improper, abusive, governmentwide, control, internal, weaknesses
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN-10: 1428988017
ISBN-13: 9781428988019

Previous auditing work on widespread improper premium class travel at the Dept. of Defense & the Dept. of State have led to concerns as to whether similar improper travel exists in the rest of the fed. govżt. The author was asked to: (1) determine the magnitude of premium class travel governmentwide & the extent such travel was improper; (2) identify internal control weaknesses that contributed to improper & abusive premium class travel; & (3) report on specific cases of improper & abusive premium class travel. Kutz analyzed bank data & performed statistical sampling to quantify the extent th

Author: McCoy Williams
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: improper, auditing, requirements, congressional, testimony, recovery, address, payments, status, agencies, efforts, payment
Number of Pages: 37
Published: 2008-05
ISBN-10: 1437900305
ISBN-13: 9781437900309

The fed. govżt. is accountable for how its agencies & grantees spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars & is responsible for safeguarding those funds against improper payments & recouping those funds when improper payments occur. The U.S. Congress enacted the Improper Payments Info. Act of 2002 (IPIA) & section 831 of the Nat. Defense Author. Act for FY2002, commonly known as the Recovery Auditing Act, to address these issues. This testimony focuses on: (1) progress made in agenciesż implementation & reporting under IPIA for FY2007; (2) major challenges that continue to hinder full rep

Author: Kay L. Daly
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: improper, payment, recovery, auditing, requirements, address, dod�s, payments, significant, improvements, needed, efforts
Number of Pages: 55
Published: 2010-01
ISBN-10: 1437920829
ISBN-13: 9781437920826

The DoD is required, as are other fed. executive agencies, to report improper payment information under the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 and recovery auditing information under section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2002, commonly known as the Recovery Auditing Act. The DoD Office of Inspector General has previously reported deficiencies at DoD related to these acts. Because of these and other long-standing weaknesses, this report examines DoD's FY 2007 improper payment and recovery audit reporting to determine whether adequate processes existed to address bo

Author: Kay Daly
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: fraud, abuse, challenges, remain, potential, measuring, improper, payments, enhancements, promise, medicare
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 2001-04-01
ISBN-10: 0756708966
ISBN-13: 9780756708962

Reviews the Health Care Fin Admin's. (HCFA) efforts to enhance the measurement of improper payments in the Medicare fee-for-service program. Identifies structural problems that exist in the Medicare claims processing system which contribute to vulnerabilities resulting in erroneous Medicare payments. Focuses on: what HCFA proposals have been designed or initiated to measure Medicare improper payments; & the status of these proposals & initiatives & how they will enhance HCFA's ability to comprehensively measure improper Medicare payments & the frequency of kickbacks, false claims, & other inap

Author: James C. Cosgrove
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: payments, home, health, improper, address, improvements, needed, medicare
Number of Pages: 53
Published: 2009-09
ISBN-10: 1437916139
ISBN-13: 9781437916133

Medicare spending on home health totaled $12.9 billion in 2006, up 44% from 2002. Concerns have been raised that improper payments from practices indicating fraud and abuse may have contributed to Medicare home health spending and utilization. This report examines the growth in Medicare home health spending and utilization and the benefit's vulnerability to improper payments. The report focused on states with the highest growth in Medicare home health spending or utilization; fraudulent and abusive practices contributing to recent spending and utilization; and administrative issues that make i

Author: Michael F. Mangano
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: service, payments, fee, medicare, fiscal, year, improper
Number of Pages: 19
Published: 2008-08
ISBN-10: 143790324X
ISBN-13: 9781437903249

The objective of this review by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General was to estimate the extent of FY 2000 fee-for-service Medicare payments that did not comply with Medicare laws and regulations. Based on HHS¿s statistical sample, HHS estimates that improper Medicare benefit payments made during FY 2000 totaled $11.9 billion, or about 6.8% of the $173.6 billion in processed fee-for-service payments reported by the Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA). As in past years, these improper payments could range from inadvertent mistakes to outright fraud and abuse