Office of the Inspector General

Taylor, J.R., and Johnson, W.N. Research Report Concerning the Use of Volunteers In Chemical Agent Research. DAIG-IN 21-75. Department of the Army, Office of the Inspector General and Auditor General, Washington, D.C. 1976. 

Office of the Inspector General (OIG). 2001. Medicaid pharmacy Actual acquisition cost of brand name prescription drug products. Report A-06-00-00023. Washington, DC OIG, August, 2001. 

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of the Inspector General. 2000a. Medicare program, prospective payment system for hospital outpatient services. Fed Reg 65 18433 available at www.gpoaccess. gov/fr/. 

Department ofHealth and Human Services (2001) Adverse Event Reporting for Dietary Supplements An Inadequate Safety Valve. Boston MA Office of the Inspector General. 

Office of the Inspector General (2006, May 2). Evaluation Report EPA Provided Quality and Timely Information on Hurricane... 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of the Inspector General (2006, May 2). Evaluation report EPA provided quality and timely information on Hurricane Katrina hazardous materials releases and debris management. (Report No. 2006-P-00023). Retrieved March 13, 2007 from http //www.epa.gov/ oigearth/reports/2006/20060502-2006-P-00023.pdf... 

Many companies, in their internal training, include information about the anti-kickback statute. The Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces the antikickback law. HHS administers the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Any serious violations are referred for potential criminal prosecution to the Department of Justice administrative sanctions also are possible. 

This inspection process has recently been augmented with the establishment of an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) which reports at the level of the Secretary, not the FDA Commissioner. One of the first announced targets of the OIG, selected from the entire realm of foods and dmgs that FDA regulates, is clinical trials. In particular, the OIG is actively investigating informed consent documents, and also has notified institutional review boards (the US equivalent of the ethics committee) that they are in for close scmtiny. 

While enforcement authority for informed consents exists in the FDA and in other non-US national and regional health authorities, the enforcement agency responsible for HIPAA in the US is the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Monitoring of HIPAA will likely occur by the Office of the Inspector General. 

Office of the Inspector General (HHS) Interkantonale Kontrollstelle fur Heilmittel (Switzerland) Clinical Information Amendment (COMIS term) Intramuscular... 

Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance (Record Group 156) Records of the Office of the Inspector General (Record Group 159) Records of the Chemical Warfare Service (Record Group 175)... 

Audit Report on High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, Office of the Inspector General, US Dept of Defense, 1993. 

Event reporting Event reporting is important for hospitals to understand patient safety risks and enable them to take steps to prevent and mitigate harm to patients. However, the status of event reporting in the US still shows considerable nnderreporting. A 2012 report from the Office of the Inspector General found that US hospital incident reporting systems captured only an estimated 14 percent of the patient harm events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries (Department of HHS 2012). 

Inspector General. 2001. Consolidated Space Operations Contract Evaluating and Reporting Cost Savings, IG-01-29. NASA Office of the Inspector General, August 31, 2001. 

US EPA. 2011. Evaluation Report EPA s Voluntary Chemical Evaluation Program Did Not Achieve Children s Health Protection Goals. Office of the Inspector General. Report No. ll-P-0379. Available at http //www.epa.gov/oig/ reports/2011/20110721-ll-P-0379.p)df (accessed September 7,2014). 

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