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DPHHS reorganizes operations, centralizes compliance and health data analytics
Summary
The Department of Public Health and Human Services outlined a reorganization that moved compliance and the Office of Health Data and Analytics into Operations Services Division, highlighting steps to reduce repeat audit findings and build analytics capacity tied to Medicaid forecasting.
The Department of Public Health and Human Services on Friday told a legislative subcommittee that it has centralized compliance and data-analytics functions into its Operations Services Division to reduce repeat audit findings and improve financial and data oversight.
The reorganization moved the Office of Health and Data Analytics and several compliance and internal-control positions into Operations Services Division. Kim Aiken, Chief of Finance and Operations for DPHHS, told the committee the division now has just over 20 full-time-equivalent positions and that the division’s base budget is about $2.7 million, with the executive request at roughly $2.9 million per year of the upcoming biennium.
The change matters because the department said repeat audit findings from the Legislative Audit Division prompted a centralized approach to monitoring subrecipients, clarifying “what it is to have a vendor relationship or a subgrantee relationship,” and better tracking corrective actions. The department also emphasized that moving the analytics and compliance work into one division should…
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