[Briefing Materials]

• "Medicare: Communications to Beneficiaries on the Prescription Drug Benefit Could be Improved" (GAO-05-43)
  Government Accountability Office (GAO), November 2004; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d0543.pdf
• "Medicare Integrity Program: Agency Approach for Allocating Funds Should be Revised" (GAO-06-813)
  GAO, September 2005; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d06813.pdf
• "Medicare Payment: CMS Methodology Adequate to Estimate National Error Rate" (GAO-06-300)
  GAO, March 2006; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d06300.pdf
• "Improper Payments: Agencies' Fiscal Year 2005 Reporting under the Improper Payments Information Act Remains Incomplete" (GAO-07-92)
  GAO, November 2006; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d0792.pdf
• "Medicare Contracting Reform: CMS's Plan Has Gaps and Its Anticipated Savings are Uncertain" (GAO-05-873)
  GAO, August 2005; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d05873.pdf
• "Medicare: More Effective Screening and Stronger Enrollment Standards Needed for Medical Equipment Suppliers" (GAO-05-656)
  GAO, September 2005; available at www.gao.gov/new.items/d05656.pdf
• "Mission"
  Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Health and Human Services, 70 Federal Register 20147, section AF.00, April 18, 2005; available at http://oig.hhs.gov/authorities/docs/05/FR041805.pdf
• "OIG Reports More than $38 Billion in Savings and Recoveries for FY 2006"
  OIG, OIG News, December 5, 2006; available at http://oig.hhs.gov/publications/docs/semiannual/
  2006/PRSemiannual%20Final%20FY%202006.pdf
• "Semiannual Report to Congress: April 1, 2006-September 30, 2006"
  OIG; available at www.oig.hhs.gov/publications/docs/semiannual/
  2006/Semiannual%20Final%20FY%202006.pdf
• "Work Plan: Fiscal Year 2007"
  OIG; available at http://oig.hhs.gov/publications/docs/workplan/
  2007/Work%20Plan%202007.pdf
• "OIG Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals"
  Federal Register, vol. 70, no. 19, January 31, 2005, p. 4858; available at http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/complianceguidance/
  012705HospSupplementalGuidance.pdf
• "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Advisory Opinion Process"
  OIG; available at http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/advisoryopinions/aofaq.html

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