Exhibit 858 ยท Legal decision
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Video News Releases, B-302710
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services's (CMS) use of appropriated funds to pay for the production and distribution of story packages that were not attributed to CMS violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes
Finds that CMS's use of appropriated funds for story packages in video news releases on the Medicare drug benefit, which did not identify CMS as the source and in which a person presented as a reporter had been hired by an HHS subcontractor, violated the publicity-or-propaganda restriction and the Antideficiency Act.
- Source
- U.S. General Accounting Office (Comptroller General)
- Date
- 19 May 2004
- Quoted from
- Digest, point 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.gao.gov/products/b-302710
- Archived
- https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://www.gao.gov/assets/b-302710.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit