DDA6A9F59E847CA4872587D60070D5B3 Hearing Summary CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf PUBLICBILL SUMMARY For PRESENTATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITORJOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON JOINT HEALTHDate Jan 26, 2022 Location Old State Library Presentation from the Office of the State Auditor - Committee Discussion Only Attachment Tag File Name Attachment A http://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/0/C66ABE51401B...$File/Attachment A.pdf?OpenElement Attachment A.pdf Attachment B http://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/0/6B6CF0C9081C...$File/Attachment B.pdf?OpenElement Attachment B.pdf Attachment C http://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/0/6E3170BF8159...$File/Attachment C.pdf?OpenElement Attachment C.pdf Attachment D http://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/0/F5F81CF092FB...$File/Attachment D.pdf?OpenElement Attachment D.pdf Attachment E http://www2.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2022A/commsumm.nsf/0/CC3E76D19CA7...$File/Attachment E.pdf?OpenElement Attachment E.pdf 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.
