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The Council conducted an audit of the Medical Malpractice Patients' Compensation Fund (PCF) and was concerned about the fund's solvency and whether the state would be liable in the event of a default.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Overall, the Council found that over the years the Board has performed its duties in an efficient and effective manner. However, there is a need for the Board to increase its capabilities to serve the public, especially in the area of complaints and professional oversight.

Health care expenditures constitute a significant portion of governmental budgets. The percentage of fraud, waste and abuse within that spending has increased over years. This paper introduces the emerging area of statistical medical fraud assessment, which becomes crucial to handle the increasing size and complexity of the medical programmes. An overview of fraud types and detection is followed by the description of medical claims data. The utilisation of sampling, overpayment estimation and data mining methods in medical fraud assessment are presented. Recent unsupervised methods are illustrated with real world data. Finally, the paper introduces potential future research areas such as integrated decision making approaches and Bayesian methods and concludes with an overall discussion. The main goal of this exposition is to increase awareness about this important area among a broader audience of statisticians.

Unnecessary repeat requesting of tests can make up a large proportion of a laboratory's workload. This audit set out to establish the size of this problem and to identify the circumstances under which these repeat requests were made in a government tertiary hospital immunology laboratory. The numbers of tests for immunoglobulin measurement, common autoantibodies, and tumour markers that were repeated over a 12 month period were analysed by interrogating the Delphic laboratory computer system using a management information system for raw data enquiry protocol. Repeat requests within 12 weeks of a previous request made up 16.78% of the total workload. The total cost of the tests was estimated at US$ 132 151. The waste of technician time and reagents as a result of unnecessary repeat testing is excessive. Many of these tests might be eliminated with the use of interventions such as computerised reminders. ; published_or_final_version

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to reviewing financial management practices at the Texas Medical Board to determine whether funds are budgeted and spent as required by the General Appropriations Act, resources are used to accomplish the Board's mission, and financial information is reliable, accurate, and consistent.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council review the Medical University of South Carolina to investigate allegations of fraud in equipment purchasing, improper dismissal of high-ranking agency officials, embezzlement, and the firing of a weapon in the President's Office.

Whether or not audit is accepted in Britain will be determined principally by how it is controlled, how much it costs, and how effective it is. The objectives of audit have been defined as education, planning, evaluation, research, and anticipatory diplomacy--that is, starting internal audit before external audit is imposed on the medical profession. Published reports suggest that in Britain internal audit would be more effective andless expensive than the complex professional standards review organisation devised by the Federal Government in the United States.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews the Department of Corrections. There were concerns about the cost effectiveness and quality of contracted inmate medical services and medical services provided by SCDC employees.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether all full-time classified positions of the Texas Board of Medical Examiners were appropriately classified in accordance with the Position Classification Plan.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas Medical Board has designed and implemented effective processes and related controls to help ensure that it registers pain management clinics in accordance with applicable statutes, administrative rules, and Board policies and procedures.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners accurately reports key performance measures to the Automated Budget and Evaluation System of Texas (ABEST), and has adequate controls in place over the collection, calculation, and reporting of performance measures.

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners accurately reports selected key performance measures to the Automated Budget and Evaluation System of Texas (ABEST), and has adequate control systems in place over the collecting, calculating, and reporting of selected key performance measures.

This report by the Legislative Audit Council reviews 7 boards : Board of Pharmacy, Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Dentistry, Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, Board of Nursing, Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Joint Liaison Committee on Small Business.

The South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Division of General Services published the findings of an audit of the procurement policies and procedures of the Medical University of South Carolina.