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BAM 320 3 of 12 DEPARTMENT AUDITS BPB 2025-009 4-1-2025
BRIDGES ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
reviewed cases. Thus, cases that are completed even with an error may have less of an impact on the error rate than a dropped review. Therefore, local office help to avoid dropping a review is crucial to the state’s overall error rate. DHS-1599, Review Results Findings Summary, Overview Upon completing the review, the Compliance Division (CD) will electronically provide a DHS-1599, Review Results Findings, sum- mary to the local office with copies to business service center and central office staff. The findings/summary includes: • Detailed case information indicating that the case is correct or in error. • Information for local office follow-up when the information is not pertinent to the sample month. • Report of a dropped review. • In cases of recipient non-cooperation, a request for case closure and the period of ineligibility; see Bridges Administrative Manual (BEM) 105, Rights and Responsibilities. The reviewer may write an “Addendum” that is a subsequent review results finding informing the local office that the results of the review have changed. Changes are reported as a result of new collateral information received by the reviewer or, a federal second party review by the US Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Error Prevention Review Process After the Compliance Division has transmitted its review results to FNS, the error case will be reviewed by the Payment Accuracy Manager and the Error Prevention Strategy Committee (EPSC). A quarterly teleconference meeting is facilitated by the Payment Accuracy Manager. This meeting will include various mandatory participants as determined by the Economic Stability Administration (ESA). The goals of the EPSC are to: • Identify issues that suggest a need to revise or clarify policy. • Identify training needs. • Identify the need for systems modifications.