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Inappropriate Payments Related to Procedure Modifiers (Follow-Up)
… health care needs. Per State Medicaid policies, payment for a surgical procedure includes all services normally … (E/M) services, are included in Medicaid’s payment for the procedure. E/M services unrelated to the original … system controls to prevent inappropriate payments for E/M services during the global surgery period, which …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2019/07/31/inappropriate-payments-related-procedure-modifiers-followContracts for Personal and Miscellaneous Services (Follow-Up)
… included in our initial audit report, Contracts for Personal and Miscellaneous Services ( 2008-S-158 ). … required to maintain documentation supporting the basis for this determination, and we found such documentation was … requesting the services determine whether: it was feasible for another constituent agency to perform some or all of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2015/01/06/contracts-personal-and-miscellaneous-services-followUnitedHealthcare – Out-of-Network Providers Upcoding Selected Evaluation and Management Services (Follow-Up)
… Out-of-Network Providers Upcoding Selected Evaluation and Management Services (Report 2017-S-34 ). About the … Department of Civil Service (Civil Service), covers active and retired State, participating local government and school district employees, and their dependents. The …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/01/03/unitedhealthcare-out-network-providers-upcoding-selected-evaluation-and-management-servicesOpinion 90-44
… §5-508[3]) VILLAGE LAW, §5-508: The compensation proposed to be paid to members of a village board of trustees which must be … of public hearing on the tentative budget refers only to the salary, or fixed, periodic cash consideration, … Whether the compensation referred to in section 55083 is limited to salary or must also include …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-44Examination of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
… Purpose The objectives of our examination were to determine if payment requests and … analytics performed included matching: (i) the Department of Taxation and Finance wage file to the DOL payment file to … files to identify duplicate payments; and (iii) out of country indicators in the claimants’ log file to the DOL …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/09/16/examination-unemployment-insurance-benefitsMedina Central School District - Tax Collection (2019M-151)
… Maintain accurate, complete and timely records for all tax collections and ensure that daily receipts … correspond to amounts deposited, intact. Ensure there is sufficient oversight of the tax collection process. … and discrepancies. District officials generally agreed with the findings and recommendations and indicated they had …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2020/01/03/medina-central-school-district-tax-collection-2019m-151Opinion 98-5
… -- Interest in Contract (county coroner paid by county for burial of public assistance recipients) COUNTY CORONER -- Conflicts of Interest (payment by county for burial of public assistance recipients) GENERAL MUNICIPAL … a bill to the county department of social services for payment of the costs of burying a deceased public …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-5Opinion 96-7
… Const. art IX, section 1[c]; see also e.g., 1993 Opns St Comp No. 93-6, p 10; 1991 Opns St Comp No. 91-14, p 53). Fire districts are established for the … Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law, §5[1]; 1992 Opns St Comp No. 92-41, p 105; 1986 Opns St Comp No. 86-34, p 55). In …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-7Contract Advisory No. 4
… Unit/ Department ID combinations, but only certain of those combinations are valid for use in creating … ID combination which is valid for contracts. A list of valid Business Unit/Department ID combinations can be … (GFO), Chapter XI, Section 2 - Comptroller Approval of Contracts and General Contracts Processing . Contracts …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/contract-advisory/4-business-unit-and-department-id-combinations-used-create-contracts-statewideImproper Payments for Controlled Substances That Exceed Allowed Dispensing Limits (Follow-Up)
… made in our audit report, Improper Payments for Controlled Substances That Exceed Allowed Dispensing … which was issued on February 6, 2015, determined that, for the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2013, Medicaid overpaid pharmacies $1,183,601 for 13,705 fee-for-service claims in which quantities of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/09/23/improper-payments-controlled-substances-exceed-allowed-dispensing-limits-followManaged Care Organizations – Payments to Ineligible Providers (Follow-Up)
… payments from Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) for services rendered to Medicaid recipients. We issued our initial audit report on February 26, 2018. The audit objective was to determine whether the … in the initial audit; however, additional action is needed. The Department did not distribute the claims data …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2019/09/06/managed-care-organizations-payments-ineligible-providers-followCounty of Oneida – County Clerk (2025M-110)
… are adequately funded. Timely and accurate handling of funds is a key part of internal controls that safeguards public money, … the Clerk to submit remittances to the County Commissioner of Finance (Commissioner) within five days following the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/county/2025/12/12/county-oneida-county-clerk-2025m-110Purchasing Practices at the Linden Plaza Mitchell-Lama Housing Development
… and middle-income families. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation’s … period. On June 29, 2018, management informed tenants of its intent to request HPD approval for an increase in the … August 31, 2017, Linden Plaza made total vendor payments of approximately $33 million; $22.3 million was for services …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2018/09/06/purchasing-practices-linden-plaza-mitchell-lama-housing-developmentDiNapoli Releases Review of Executive Budget
… Although the state Division of the Budget (DOB) forecasts in the State Fiscal Year (SFY) … remain in balance for the next five years, the direction of the pandemic, inflation, and supply chain issues all … Thomas P. DiNapoli. The budget also proposes billions of dollars in spending that would bypass critical oversight …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/02/dinapoli-releases-review-executive-budgetVIII.1.C Expenditure Transfers – VIII. Accounts Payable Journal Vouchers & General Ledger Journal Entries
… funds. Current SFS functionality prevents the submission of adjustments and transfers between funds in the submodules. … that have online access to SFS, all reclassifications of voucher expenditures made within SFS within the same fund … must be entered as an APJV transaction, with the exception of corrections made to vouchers that used an interagency …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-viii/viii1c-expenditure-transfersDiNapoli: State Agencies Persistently Late with Not-For-Profits Contracts
… found 50 percent of the contracts in 2019 between Not-for-Profit (NFP) organizations and the state were not … showed that no progress has been made in the past year, with the percentage of late contracts increasing slightly … failure of state agencies to process contracts on time is unacceptable and harms service providers in fields like …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/06/dinapoli-state-agencies-persistently-late-not-profits-contractsDiNapoli: Brooklyn Economy Sets Records
… Thomas DiNapoli’s report provides some excellent news for Brooklyn, including 4.4 percent job growth in 2017, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/06/dinapoli-brooklyn-economy-sets-recordsOpinion 98-6
… in a contract with a firm of which the supervisor's spouse is the sole proprietor if the contract was entered into prior … state that the spouse of a newly-elected county supervisor is the sole proprietor of a company which was awarded a … to be awarded additional contracts while the supervisor is in office. You have informed us that the county manager, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-6Compliance With Executive Order 95 (Open Data)
… covered the period between February 1, 2013 and October 16, 2019. About the Program State government entities possess …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/04/08/compliance-executive-order-95-open-data-0Opinion 2001-9
… against county officials serving as officers of not-for-profit corporations) -- Exceptions (contracts with … implied ..." (General Municipal Law §800[2]). "Interest" is defined in section 800(3) as a "direct or indirect … county. The disclosure statement must be set forth in the official minutes of the county board. The board member also …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2001-9