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B-166866 1 (1970-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabksh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~by the Office of Le ro%(-La-c, h Xde vvs isprkept by the Dkstribut~on Sectdon, Pgcatlons Br 1 GA'S COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF I HE UNITED MINDY WASHINGTON, D C MU RELEASED B-166866 APR 2 1970 Dear Mr. Chairman: Reference is made to your letter of April 29, 1969, requesting that we examine into certain accounts maintained at the Veterans Ad- ministration (VA) hospital, Miami, Florida, and at the University of Miami (University) which is affiliated with the Miami VA Hospital. In accordance with your request and agreements reached with the Com- mittee's Counsel, our examination was directed primarily toward de- termining the extent that members of the VA hospital staff contributed to and benefited from funds in these accounts during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1969, and toward obtaining certain other information requested by the Committee's Counsel. Specifically, we were requested to: 1. Make a full audit of accounts X8706E and R5299A which in- volved Doctors Solomon Papper, Lawrence Fishman, George Baum, and Eliseo Perez-Stable. 2. Examine into whether physicians of the VA hospital provided services to Medicare patients as attending physicians under the Medicare program. 3. Ascertain whether physicians of the VA hospital, who received funds for travel expenses from the University, had been reim- bursed by the VA for the same ti avel. Following is a summary of the information obtained during our examination. These matters are discussed in detail in the enclosures to this letter report. We determined that accounts X8706E and R5299A were main- tained in the University and that the four doctors were full-time em- ployees of the Miami VA Hospital and had full-time faculty appoint- ments in the University of Miami School of Medicine. We were not able to make a full audit, as requested, because there was no contractual agreement between the University and VA q~'~** fou'iv.Si