EOHHS is soliciting proposals to contract an independent CPA firm to perform DSH audits. The contractor will determine whether a desk and/or on-site audit is required. The first year of the contract resulting from this RFP will be an audit of the MSP year 2023, with each subsequent contract year corresponding with each subsequent MSP year. The contractor must review the criteria of the Federal audit regulation and complete the verification, calculations and report under the professional rules and generally accepted standards of audit practice. Certification of the audit will include a review of the State’s audit protocol to ensure that the Federal regulation is satisfied, an opinion for each verification detailed in the regulation, and a determination of whether the State made DSH payments that exceeded a hospital’s specific DSH limit in the MSP year under audit. The certification will also identify any data issues or other caveats that the contractor identifies as impacting the results of the audit.
