Inspectors General: Compliance With Professional Standards by the HHS Inspector General
AFMD-88-36
Published: Sep 29, 1988. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 1988.
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GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) compliance with professional standards.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| HHS Office of Inspector General | The Inspector General should evaluate whether the information management system will ensure compliance with the screening allegation standard and OIG policies and procedures or he should develop an alternative approach that will. |
OIG has implemented an extensive tracking system that will track allegations through resolution and record final status, number of convictions, amounts of administrative penalties, etc. OIG is confident the system will ensure compliance with the screening allegation standard.
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| HHS Office of Inspector General | To help ensure an effective quality assurance program in the inspection function, the Inspector General should require all quality assurance reports to clearly state the scope of each review and include a statement that all identified weaknesses are discussed. |
The reporting requirement in the OIG manual for inspections has been revised to require that the scope of each quality assurance review be clearly delineated and that all identified weaknesses be fully discussed.
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| HHS Office of Inspector General | The Inspector General should require formal procedures to be developed for following up on quality assurance report recommendations to ensure that corrective action has been taken. |
In 1989, the new AIG for inspections visited every regional office and verified that all previous quality assurance recommendations had been implemented. For fiscal year 1990, the OIG manual has been revised to require quality assurance reviews to verify that prior recommendations have been implemented.
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