HHS’ Office of Inspector General Announces New Strategic Plan: What Contractors Should Know

Bass Berry & Sims – On October 3, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General published a strategic plan for improving oversight of public grants and contracts “to strengthen compliance with HHS award requirements; promote award practices that achieve program outcomes; and mitigate fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.” This comes as grant fraud related to awards by HHS and other agencies routinely makes the news.