Reimbursement for National Health Service Corps Personnel

Local health clinics are responsible for reimbursing the Government for certain costs associated with health professionals assigned to them by the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). GAO examined several aspects of the reimbursement issue. Specifically, GAO looked at the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) calculations of the amounts that the clinics were expected to reimburse, its procedures for billing the clinics, the conditions under which it would waive the clinic's reimbursement, and its efforts to collect the reimbursement from the clinics. Additionally, GAO reviewed the clinic's procedures for setting, charging, and collecting fees for the health service they provided.