Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released its “Audit of DoD Health Care Personnel Shortages During the Coronavirus Disease–2019 Pandemic.” 

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released its “Audit of the Department of Defense’s FY 2023 Compliance with Payment Integrity Information Act Requirements.”

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released the “Management Advisory: The DoD’s FY 2023 Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014.”

This report contains classified information and no redacted version is available. To file a Freedom of Information Act Request, please submit a request to FOIA.gov.

The objective of this audit was to determine whether selected DoD medical treatment facilities experienced shortages in health care personnel before and during the COVID‑19 pandemic. As our audit continued, we used the available data from the Defense Health Agency to examine ongoing medical staffing challenges as well.

This final report provides the results of the DoD Office of Inspector General’s external peer review of the Missile Defense Agency Internal Review Office. We are providing this report for information and use.

A Mississippi man who owned, operated, had financial interests in, or was affiliated with pharmacies, durable medical equipment (DME) companies, and a laboratory today admitted his role in a health care fraud scheme that caused losses to Medicare in excess of $51 million, Attorney for the United States Caroline Sadlowski announced.

After a seven-day trial, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts yesterday convicting Wayne I. Kacher, Jr., age 51, of Harford County, Maryland, on federal charges of conspiring to commit honest services wire fraud and bribery, honest services wire fraud, and bribery involving federal funds.

The Justice Department today announced that Pen Yu, also known as Ben Yu, 51, of Gibsonton, Florida, and Gregory Muñoz, 45, of Minneola, Florida, have each pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently procure deeply discounted products from Massachusetts biochemical company Sigma-Aldrich Inc., doing business as MilliporeSigma, and export them to China using falsified export documents.