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Performance and Accountability Report
Fiscal Year 2002

Appendix I - Financial Management Strategic Goals

Goal 1 - Decision-makers have timely, accurate, and useful program information.
		Performance Trend
Measure	Baseline	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002 Actual	FY 2002 Target	Performance/Comments
Audited financial statements for HHS and CMS are submitted to OMB by submission due date.	1996: No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Due date is January 31, 2003.
Number of department-level material weaknesses.	1996: 5	3 Medicare accounts receivable; Medicare electronic data processing (EDP); and financial reporting.	3 Medicare accounts receivable; Medicare EDP; and financial reporting.	2 Financial systems and processes & Medicare EDP.	2 Financial systems and processes and Medicare EDP.	2	2	See Auditor's Opinion in Section IV.
Number of department-level reportable conditions.	1997	5 Accounts payable; Medicaid estimated improper payments; EDP; property, plant, and equipment; and estimating losses from litigation.	4 CMS regional office oversight; Medicaid improper payments; EDP; and property, plant, and equipment.	2 Medicaid improper payments and EDP.	3 Medicaid improper payments; departmental information systems controls; and management systems planning and development.	1	2	See Auditor's Opinion in Section IV.
Percentage of Medicare contractors that will be subject to a SAS 70.	2000	N/A	N/A	50%	32%	50%	20%
Number of department-level instances of FFMIA non-compliance.	1997	3	3	2	2	2	2	See Appendix D.

Goal 2 - All resources are used appropriately, efficiently, and effectively.
		Performance Trend
Measure	Baseline	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002 Actual	FY 2002 Target	Performance/Comments
Percent of vendor payments made on time.	1997	91.0%	96.4%	96.6%	97.7%	98.3%	96% (Revised)	See Appendix F.
Percent of individually billed travel accounts that are past due 61 or more days.	2000	N/A	N/A	11.1%	3.5%	2.0%	4%	Exceeded target by 2%.
Percent of centrally billed travel accounts that are past due 61 or more days.	2000	N/A	N/A	27.5%	15.5%	0.3%	0.5%	Continued diligence has resulted in a reduction of 15.2 percnetage points in FY 2002.
Increase percent of debt collection over prior year.	1998	$13.3 billion	$14.27 billion 7% increase	$15.3 billion 7.2% increase	$14.4 billion 5.8% decrease	$14.4 billion	10% increase	While collections remained constant, total receivables decreased from $10.8 to 9.7 billion.
Percent of eligible non-waived delinquent debt referred for cross-servicing to the Treasury.	1998	0%	23%	41.9%	67.8%	93.5%	100%	HHS remains committed to achieving its target of 100% referral for eligible debts to Treasury for cross-servicing.
Percent of eligible waived delinquent debt referred to PSC for cross-servicing.	1999	N/A	3.7%	26.2%	46.7%	61.1%	100%	Improved referral for waived deliquent debts to Treasury for cross-servicing by 14.4 percentage points in FY 2002.
Percent of eligible delinquent debt referred to the Treasury for offset.	1998	20.2%	10.5%	34.2%	59.1%	72.4%	100%	Achieved a 13.3 percentage point improvement in referrals of eligible delinquent debts to Treasury for offset for FY 2002.
Number of department-level FMFIA material weaknesses/non-conformances pending at year end. Sections 2 & 4.	1997	Sec 2 - 6 Sec 4 - 0	Sec 2 - 6 Sec 4 - 0	Sec 2 - 4 Sec 4 - 0	Sec 2 - 2 Sec 4 - 1	Sec 2 - 1 Sec 4 - 1	Sec 2 - 0 Sec 4 - 1	Resolved NIH technology transfer Section 2 material weakness.

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