Deficiencies in Contract Management Internal Control Are Pervasive
October 23, 2009 This brief was written by the United States Government Accountability Office. It states that as a result of internal control deficiencies discussed in a previous GAO report published in 2007 regarding contracts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), GAO was asked to identify the extent to which CMS implemented effective control procedures over contract actions, and established a control environment for contract management. GAO used a statistical random sample of 2008 CMS contract actions to assess CMS internal control procedures. The results were projected to the population of 2008 CMS contract actions. GAO also . . .
