Corrective Action Plan Finding 2022-001 Provider Relief Fund (Assistance Listing #93.498) Activities Allowed or Unallowed and Allowable Costs At the beginning of the pandemic, Eisenhower Medical Center created a COVID-19 response team to evaluate the requirements for the COVID-19 funding received a...
Corrective Action Plan Finding 2022-001 Provider Relief Fund (Assistance Listing #93.498) Activities Allowed or Unallowed and Allowable Costs At the beginning of the pandemic, Eisenhower Medical Center created a COVID-19 response team to evaluate the requirements for the COVID-19 funding received and ensure the funds were only used for allowable purposes. The response team continuously monitored the FAQs and other guidance on the reporting requirements as they continued to evolve as additional funds were received. As part of the Uniform Guidance audit, Eisenhower Medical Center provided documentation of the Provider Relief Fund review process, including response team meeting agendas, email correspondence, as well as management sign-off on the lost revenue calculations and expenses submitted as part of the Provider Relief Fund Period 2 report. Through the audit testing, we were asked to provide copies of approval documents for some of the supply requisitions for expenses reported as part of the Provider Relief Fund period 2 report. The documents in question were paper approval forms for some of the supplies purchased in July through December of 2020. Historically these documents were only retained for two years and thus they were not available for the audit procedures. In November 2021, we implemented a new automated supply requisition process that is integrated with our financial software (Workday). This new implementation will help to correct this issue in the future with the ability to provide electronic documentation of date/time stamped approvals. In addition to the new requisition process we wanted to improve the process for documenting the review of the expenses and lost revenue to be reported in the Provider Relief Fund reports. To ensure our internal controls are documented to level necessary under current audit standards, Eisenhower has developed a review checklist to document the review and approval of supporting documentation of the revenue and expense information to be reported in the Provider Relief Fund reports. The checklist will be retained with our existing support of Provider Relief Fund federal expenditures. The new checklist had not been developed when the Provider Relief Fund Period 2 Report was submitted, and thus not used. The new checklist however, will be used for any future Provider Relief Fund Report submissions. Responsible Official: Melanie Long, VP Finance Anticipated Completion Date: March 31, 2023