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National Alzheimer’s Project: HHS Needs to Better Assess and Communicate Progress
GAO-26-108498
Jun 29, 2026
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4 Open Recommendations
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of Health and Human Services should provide the Advisory Council with information on the implementation status of individual recommendations the council has made to federal agencies, including information on the actions taken to address them. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of Health and Human Services should set near-term goals for each long-term goal of the National Alzheimer's Project, that comprise performance measures, quantitative target levels of performance, and time frames by which results are to be achieved. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of Health and Human Services should collect performance information for the National Alzheimer's Project and use it to assess progress toward near- and long-term goals of the project, and inform management decisions to adjust efforts, as appropriate. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of Health and Human Services should communicate project progress to National Alzheimer's Project stakeholders in a clear, digestible format. (Recommendation 4)
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Behavioral Health: HHS and DOJ Offer Grants to Help Human Trafficking Survivors
GAO-26-107901
Jun 11, 2026
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Department of Justice The Attorney General should ensure that the Office for Victims of Crime sets measurable near-term goals with targets and time frames for the Services for Victims of Human Trafficking program. (Recommendation 1)
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Medicare Hospice: Action Needed to Pay More Efficiently for Routine Home Care
GAO-26-107585
Jun 09, 2026
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Congress Congress should consider directing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to revise the hospice payment system for routine home care services to better promote payment efficiency and realize savings for the Medicare program. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Veterans Affairs: Improved Oversight Could Strengthen Processes for Estimating Health Care Funding
GAO-26-107950
Jun 04, 2026
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should establish formalized processes for communicating to its actuarial consultant during the annual model update process information on the data quality, including any limitations, of VA direct care data used in the actuarial modeling that informs VA's health care budget projection. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should identify an approach to help ensure that there is a formalized process for incorporating newly emerging data, when possible, in the model after initial model delivery and prior to submitting the health care budget projection for the President's budget request. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should identify an approach to help ensure that information on the extent to which the EHCPM estimates can vary are documented and reported, such as in the annual risk assessment report and take action to implement that approach. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should update its standard operating procedure for assessing its actuarial consultant's performance to include a formalized process for assessing the quality of the consultant's deliverables to ensure the consultant complies with the work laid out in the performance work statement. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The VA Undersecretary for Health should ensure it has a formalized process, such as a Memorandum of Agreement, for meeting its goal for VA's Office of Actuarial Services to be involved in VHA's development of model estimates for health care. (Recommendation 5)
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