Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors Identify $371.5 Million in Improper Payments

On February 28, 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the Medicare recovery audit contractor (RAC) status document for fiscal year 2007 indicating that RACs in New York, California and Florida identified and corrected $371.5 million in improper payments.

FBI phone tap cut due to unpaid bill

"A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a US government audit. The US Justice Department's inspector general faulted the FBI for poor handling of money used in undercover investigations, which it...

Flight ban on Indonesia hopefully lifted at end of this year

"The flight ban imposed by the European Union on Indonesian airlines in July 2007 will likely be lifted at the end of this year after a EU investigation team found some positive signs.Led by Frederico Grandini the five expert member team of the European Aviation Safety Agency...

President to issue regulation on govt`s internal audit

Kenyans burned to death in church

"Scores of people are reported to have been burnt to death in a church in western Kenya. There are conflicting reports about the numbers who died with one estimate putting the death toll at 30. However, Brother Felim Ryan, a native of Thurles in Co Tipperary but based in...

GAO Audit Reveals $90 Million in Questionable Medicare Payments

In a recently released report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made approximately $90 million in questionable payments to contractors.

CMS to Direct Review of Recovery Audit Contractor Decisions

In a December 10, 2007 article, The Sacramento Bee reports that Medicare officials recently informed Congress that policy inconsistencies were found in approximately 40 percent of the audit decisions of California's Medicare recovery audit contractor.

KPK to grill state audit board chief

"The KPK would question Anwar after the BPK had reported that there was an alleged disbursement of Rp100 billion by the central bank (BI) for members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and for legal assistance to BI board of directors who were implicated in BI`s...

House ethics probe into BI fund flow runs into snag

""The last time we invited them was on Monday. Eleven of the BK-DPR`s 13 members talked with them for two hours but until the end of the meeting they were not prepared to mention the names," he said. Irsyad said the DK-DPR obviously needed to know the full names of the...