Consultant's Review of the Social Security Administration's Cost Assignment Methodology
AIMD-98-3R
Published: Oct 01, 1997. Publicly Released: Oct 01, 1997.
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GAO provided information on the performance of a study conducted by Price Waterhouse LLP of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) cost assignment methodology used to charge costs to the Medicare Trust Funds. GAO's review was not intended to enable it to express, and it does not express, an opinion on SSA's cost accounting system.
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Administrative costsAllocation (Government accounting)Cost accountingFederal social security programsFunds managementHealth care programsTrust fundsChief financial officersMedicareHealth care finance