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DHS Office of Inspector General: licensing, background studies and fraud prevention work explained
Summary
The committee heard from House Research staff about DHS licensing activity, the Office of Inspector General’s investigative and fraud‑prevention role, the NETStudy 2.0 background study system, and recent workload statistics including 507,517 background study requests in 2023.
House Research and House Fiscal staff briefed the committee on the Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), which oversees licensing, background studies and program‑integrity work.
Staff explained that DHS directly licenses or certifies roughly 20,000 programs and providers at any time, including childcare centers, children’s residential facilities, SUD treatment and detox programs, home‑and‑community‑based service providers and certain direct care and treatment programs. Many child‑care and foster‑care licensing…
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