CAP for Finding: 2022-303 DATE: March 21, 2023 TO: Lisa Kasel, Assistant Financial Audit Director Legislative Audit Bureau FROM: Barry Kasten, Director Bureau of Fiscal Services Department of Health Services SUBJECT: Corrective Action Plan ? Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Report...
CAP for Finding: 2022-303 DATE: March 21, 2023 TO: Lisa Kasel, Assistant Financial Audit Director Legislative Audit Bureau FROM: Barry Kasten, Director Bureau of Fiscal Services Department of Health Services SUBJECT: Corrective Action Plan ? Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Reporting ? Immunization Cooperative Agreements Department staff has reviewed the Legislative Audit Bureau?s (LAB) interim audit memo for Finding 2022-303: Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Reporting ? Immunization Cooperative Agreements. This is the department?s Corrective Action Plan. ? Recommendation (2022-303): Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Reporting? Immunization Cooperative Agreements We recommend the Wisconsin Department of Health Services: ? Update the queries used to identify subawards in the State?s accounting system, STAR, that are subject to Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act reporting to ensure all required subawards are identified; and ? Ensure all required subwards of $30,000 or more, including any amendments or modifications to a subaward, are identified and submitted to the Federal Fund Accountability and Transparency Act Subaward Reporting System in a timely manner. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Planned Corrective Action: BFS agrees that the circumstances shaped by the COVID emergency required BFS to prioritize tasks critical to essential functions over those with little to no financial impact. Furthermore, during this same period, there was turnover in this position. Lack of priority and new staffing led to late reporting. Additionally, procedural misunderstandings contributed to continued reporting delays of the correcting items identified in the first finding. The summer and early Fall of 2022 allowed for additional research, clarification, and catching up. Since November of 2022 there have been timely monthly uploads of collected data and it has continued to be reported monthly. BFS also agrees that LAB identified several contracts not yet reported. Upon discovery, BFS made it a priority to take steps necessary to immediately report the missing contracts on the FSRS site. Investigations into the missing contracts revealed that there was an issue with the query being used to pull the STAR data. Investigations into the CARS query led to discovery of the incorrect usage of the date parameters. DHS will correct the query errors and modify the FFATA procedures for accurate, complete, and timely reporting. Anticipated Completion Date: May 2023 Person responsible for corrective action: Vanessa Salata, Section Chief Expenditure Accounting Section Chief, Bureau of Fiscal Services, Division of Enterprise Services vanessaa.salata@dhs.wisconsin.gov