Management Advisory Memorandum: Notification of Concerns Resulting from Multiple Office of the Inspector General Reviews Related to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Strategy for its Medical Services Contracts

Create and implement strategies to leverage inmate healthcare utilization data that the OIG recommended to collect in 2016, which would enable the BOP to determine the cost effectiveness of alternative medical services contract structures.

Create and implement a uniform or universal billing review and approval process to: (1) ensure medical claims are properly supported and (2) improve timeliness of processing medical invoices.

Create and implement a timeline for utilizing the medical claims adjudication vendor contract awarded in December 2019 to process and ensure healthcare claims are accurate and complete