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DDA6A9F59E847CA4872587D60070D5B3 Hearing Summary




PUBLIC
BILL SUMMARY For PRESENTATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR

JOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON JOINT HEALTH
Date Jan 26, 2022      
Location Old State Library



Presentation from the Office of the State Auditor - Committee Discussion Only

01:32:30 PM  
Representative Michaelson
Jenet called the meeting to order.  A meeting agenda was distrbuted
to the committee (Attachment A).




Marisa Edwards, Deputy State Auditor, Office of the State Auditor (OSA),
made opening remarks to the committee about the presentations from the
OSA.
01:34:56 PM  
Derek Johnson, Senior
Legislative Auditor, OSA, presented the performance audit on COVID-19 Infection
Prevention at the Veterans Community Living Centers (Attachment B).  Mr.
Johnson reviewed the key results and conclusions from the audit, which
included that since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Department
of Human Services and Veterans Community Living Centers has implemented
required infection prevention measures to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
 As presented in the report, during the audit period, the number of
infections, deaths and length of outbreaks at the living centers decreased
as the measures were implemented.
01:37:06 PM  
Jenny Page, Audit
Manager, OSA, presented on Medicaid Non-Emergent Medical Transportation
Performance Audit (Attachment C).  She reviewed the key findings and
recommendations from the audit.  Ms. Page responded to questions from
the committee.
02:01:16 PM  
Ms. Page continued
to the Annual Report: Status of Audit Recommendations Not Fully Implemented,
as of June 30, 2021 (Attachment D).  She highlighted statistics from
the report about the number of audit recommendations made over the last
five years.  She discussed the number of unimplemented audits reflected
in the report.  Ms. Page responded to questions from the committee.
02:18:45 PM  
Monica Powers, Audit Manager, OSA, reviewed the unimplemented audit recommendations for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Ms. Powers, Ms. Page, and Ms. Edwards responded to questions from the committee.
02:28:55 PM  
Ms. Powers reviewed
the unimplimented audit recommendations for the Department of Human Services.
 She stated that the Department of Public Health and Environment,
Connect for Health Colorado, and the various divisions in the Department
of Regulatory Agencies overseen by the committee did not have any high
priority recommendations that needed to be implemented as of June 2021.
 The committee was also provided a copy of the Colorado Office of
the State Auditor Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report (Attachment E).  Ms.
Page responded to questions from the committee about how a legislator can
start an audit.






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