Institutional Federal Compliance Report 2021

STATE OF NEW YORK

Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs

Year ended March 31, 2018

Repeat Finding A similar finding for the Department was included in the prior year Single Audit Report as finding number 2017-029 at page 77. Questioned Costs $1,700 (total of claims selected for the 4 ineligible beneficiaries) Recommendation We recommend that the Department implement their proposed prior year corrective action plan to ensure only eligible criteria is utilized to extract BHP eligible beneficiary claims. The Department should collaborate with the MMIS department to ensure more specific criteria are utilized so that only BHP eligible claims are expended against the BHP trust fund. Lastly, the Department should implement a monitoring control to ensure MMIS flags and related eligibility reports are complete and accurate based on the Federal program compliance guidelines. Views of Responsible Officials Recommendation accepted. Please see corrective action plan for further details.

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