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Medicare Program Integrity: CMS Continues Efforts to Strengthen the Screening of Providers and Suppliers
ISBN: 9781491284117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Medicare comprises 12 percent of the federal budget and is the third largest federal program after defense and Social Security. For fiscal year 2011, HHS reported an estimate of almost $29 billion in Medicare FFS improper payments. Our Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government suggests that agencies should continually perform monitoring activities to reduce the incidence of improper payments.15 However, our prior reports found weaknesses in CMS's monitoring of Medicare provider and supplier enrollment and claims payment contractors.
Medicare comprises 12 percent of the federal budget and is the third largest federal program after defense and Social Security. For fiscal year 2011, ...
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Defense Logistics: Improvements Needed to Enhance Oversight of Estimated Longterm Costs for Operating and Supporting Major Weapon Systems
ISBN: 9781491283820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Requirements for submitting SARs to Congress, including the timing of these reports and the types of information to be included, are established in statute. Under 10 U.S.C. 2432, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress at the end of each fiscal-year quarter a report on current major defense acquisition programs.12The statute also requires that the annual SAR include a full life-cycle cost analysis for each major defense acquisition program and each designated major subprogram included in the report that is in the system development and demonstration stage or has completed that...
Requirements for submitting SARs to Congress, including the timing of these reports and the types of information to be included, are established in st...
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Defense Headquarters: Futher Efforts to Examine Resource Needs and Improve Data Could Provide Additional Opportunities for Cost Savings
ISBN: 9781491283943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A statutory mandate directs us to conduct routine investigations to identify federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goals and activities within departments and governmentwide.
A statutory mandate directs us to conduct routine investigations to identify federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives with duplicative goa...
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Information Technology Cost Estimation: Agencies Need to Address Significant Weaknesses in Policies and Practices
ISBN: 9781492106524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Given the size and significance of the government's investment in IT, it is important that projects be managed effectively to ensure that public resources are wisely invested. Effectively managing projects entails, among other things, developing reliable and high-quality cost estimates that project realistic life-cycle costs. A life-cycle cost estimate provides an exhaustive and structured accounting of all resources and associated cost elements required to develop, produce, deploy, and sustain a particular program. In essence, life cycle can be thought of as a "cradle to grave" approach to...
Given the size and significance of the government's investment in IT, it is important that projects be managed effectively to ensure that public resou...
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Humanitarian and Development Assistance: Project Evaluations and Better Information Sharing Needed to Manage the Military's Efforts
ISBN: 9781491289631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. DOD operates two key humanitarian assistance programs: (1) the humanitarian assistance program funded through its OHDACA appropriation7 and (2) the HCA program.8 Projects for both the OHDACA and the HCA programs are generally planned and implemented at the geographic combatant command level, with initial project proposals developed at the embassy (country) level (see apps. II through VIII for information on each DOD geographic combatant command's OHDACA and HCA funding and efforts and app.
DOD operates two key humanitarian assistance programs: (1) the humanitarian assistance program funded through its OHDACA appropriation7 and (2) the HC...
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Grants Management: Action Needed to Improve the Timeliness of Grant Closeouts by Federal Agencies
ISBN: 9781491289709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The federal government uses grants to achieve national priorities through nonfederal parties, including state and local governments, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. While there can be significant variation among different grant programs, most federal grants share a common life cycle for administering the grants: pre-award, award, implementation, and closeout.
The federal government uses grants to achieve national priorities through nonfederal parties, including state and local governments, educational insti...
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Surface Transportation: Financing Program Could Benefit from Increased Performance Focus and Better Communication
ISBN: 9781492106890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most federal highway transportation funds are distributed as grants to states as part of the federal aid highway program through a set of complex formulas that take into account a number of factors, including the estimated share of taxes highway users in each state contributes. The Highway Trust Fund is the principal source of funding for federal aid highway programs and is funded through motor fuel and other highway use taxes.
Most federal highway transportation funds are distributed as grants to states as part of the federal aid highway program through a set of complex form...
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Understanding the Power of Social Media as a Communications Tool in the Aftermath of Disaster
ISBN: 9781505237788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Tobacco Taxes: Large Dispartities in Rates for Smoking Products Trigger Significant Market Shifts to Avoid Higher Taxes
ISBN: 9781491290675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cigarettes continue to dominate the smoking tobacco product market, accounting for approximately 91 percent of sales in 2011. However, the use of other smoking tobacco products has increased over the past 10 years. Between 2001 and 2011, combined sales of roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, and small and large cigars grew from 3 percent of the smoking tobacco market to 9 percent. Although cigarette use in the United States is declining, it is partially offset by growing use of other smoking tobacco products. (See app. II for data on U.S. sales of smoking tobacco products from fiscal year...
Cigarettes continue to dominate the smoking tobacco product market, accounting for approximately 91 percent of sales in 2011. However, the use of othe...
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Disability Employment: Futher Action Needed to Oversee Efforts to Meet Federal Government Hiring Goals
ISBN: 9781492102342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Under the Rehabilitation Act, a person is considered to have a disability if the individual has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.4 Existing federal efforts are intended to promote the employment of individuals with disabilities in the federal workforce and help agencies carry out their responsibilities under the Rehabilitation Act.
Under the Rehabilitation Act, a person is considered to have a disability if the individual has a physical or mental impairment that substantially lim...
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Social Security Death Data: Additional Action Needed to Address Data Errors and Federal Agency Access
ISBN: 9781502991546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. SSA's primary mission is to pay benefits under its Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, in accordance with Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act of 1935 as amended.
SSA's primary mission is to pay benefits under its Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, in accordan...
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SECURE FLIGHT TSA Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms
ISBN: 9781508685814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Public Transit Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects
ISBN: 9781503375796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Under SAFETEA-LU, FTA's primary source of funding for new fixed-guideway capital projects or extensions to existing fixed-guideway-transit systems was the Capital Investment Grant program. Within the Capital Investment Grant program, project sponsors typically applied for funding as either a New Starts or Small Starts project. FTA's New Starts projects under SAFETEA-LU were defined as new fixed guideway or extensions to existing fixed guideway capital projects with a total capital cost of $250 million or more or a Capital Investment Grant program contribution of $75 million or more.
Under SAFETEA-LU, FTA's primary source of funding for new fixed-guideway capital projects or extensions to existing fixed-guideway-transit systems was...
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National Institutes of Health Research Priority Setting, and Funding Allocations across Selected Diseases and Conditions
ISBN: 9781503372764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As the central office for NIH, OD establishes NIH policy and broad themes for the agency to pursue, such as ensuring a sustainable scientific workforce, based on national needs and scientific opportunities. In addition, the OD is responsible for coordinating the programs and activities that span NIH components, particularly research initiatives and issues involving more than 1 of the 27 ICs. OD is also responsible for ensuring that scientifically-based strategic planning is implemented in support of research priorities, and that NIH's resources are sufficiently allocated for research projects...
As the central office for NIH, OD establishes NIH policy and broad themes for the agency to pursue, such as ensuring a sustainable scientific workforc...
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HUMAN CAPITAL OPM Needs to Improve the Design, Management, and Oversight of the Federal Classification System
ISBN: 9781511439800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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MISSOURI RIVER FLOOD AND DROUGHT Experts Agree the Corps Took Appropriate Action, Given the Circumstances, but Should Examine New Forecasting Techniqu
ISBN: 9781511421256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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EDUCATION OF HOMELESS STUDENTS Improved Program Oversight Needed
ISBN: 9781511410793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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OIL AND GAS TRANSPORTATION Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipelin
ISBN: 9781511422260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Terrorism Insurance Treasury Needs to Collect and Analyze Data to Better Understand Fiscal Exposure and Clarify Guidance
ISBN: 9781503395909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From an insurance standpoint, measuring and predicting terrorism risk is challenging. According to standard insurance theory, four major principles contribute to the ability of insurers to estimate and cover future losses: the law of large numbers, measurability, fortuity, and the size of the potential losses. When determining whether to offer coverage for a particular risk and at what price, insurers evaluate whether sufficient information exists about each of these principles. To underwrite insurance-that is, decide whether to offer coverage and what price to charge-insurers consider both...
From an insurance standpoint, measuring and predicting terrorism risk is challenging. According to standard insurance theory, four major principles co...
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Commercial Aviation Status of Air Service to Small Communities and the Federal Programs Involved
ISBN: 9781503372900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Air service in the United States is highly concentrated, with 88 percent of all passenger boardings at the 62 large- or medium-hub airports. Small airports refer to small-hub, nonhub, and commercial-service nonprimary airports, each with less than 0.25 percent of all annual passenger boardings, or less than 1.8 million total boardings in 2012. Many small communities across the United States have access to the more than 450 small airports with scheduled passenger service, provided mostly by regional airlines that are under contract with mainline network airlines, like Delta Air Lines or United...
Air service in the United States is highly concentrated, with 88 percent of all passenger boardings at the 62 large- or medium-hub airports. Small air...
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