CONTENTS

2 Director’s Corner: The Future of Payment Integrity

3 Beta Testing EVVE FOD Data Source in the DNP Portal

4 Fiscal Service Unanimously Approves Use of the 

Account Verification Service (AVS)

4 Are You Using the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) in the 

DNP Portal?

5 Maximize Your Return on Investment 

with DNP!

6 DNP Medicaid Screening Service to 

Assist State Medicaid Offices

7 Improper Payments Prevented by States with DNP

7 Announcements

8 DNP Questions and Answers

9 Payment Integrity Journal Survey

PAYMENT

INTEGRITY

SUMMER 2022

JOURNAL
Did you notice the new name – Payment Integrity Journal? More change, ugh. The past 

few years have been a period of unprecedented change in our society and in most of our 

professional lives while we deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. 

To quote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “Change is the only constant in life.” Many 

of us agree with this statement now more than ever. Change can be good, bad, sometimes 

annoying - and it is easy to be resistant to more change when so much change is already 

happening. But forward-looking leadership requires embracing that change is a constant.

I am fortunate to get to write about a change that should be incredibly positive for DNP 

customers. In the coming months, The Do Not Pay (DNP) Business Center and the Payment 

Integrity Center of Excellence (PICOE) will be aligning our offices to offer services as a 

collective payment integrity office from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. 

What does this mean to our customers? Your DNP access will not change. But we envision 

being able to offer you access to more payment integrity services, being able to help you have 

a greater impact, and being able to offer you more partnership opportunities. As we evolve 

our payment integrity solutions to better serve your needs, you will notice a commitment to 

change - change with the goal of continued progress. We hope the name change, from DNP 

Digest to Payment Integrity Journal, reflects this larger vision. 

You will also see this larger vision reflected in the content of the Payment Integrity Journal. 

Included in this issue you will learn about a new death data source now being offered 

through DNP - the Electronic Verification of Vital Events Fact of Death service (EVVE 

FOD), an update about how the Account Verification Service (AVS) is now being offered 

as a program by PICOE, a new outcome tool available through DNP to help you provide 

feedback, a new service approach for Medicaid program customers, and much more. 

Lots of change! It really is unavoidable - but in this case it’s also exciting and, we think, 

incredibly positive for our customers.

The Future of Payment Integrity

DIRECTOR’S CORNER PG. 2

Marshall Henry

Director of the Do Not Pay Business Center
Do Not Pay (DNP) is pleased to announce that access to the Electronic 

Verification of Vital Events Fact of Death (EVVE FOD); a new death 

data source will be available in the DNP Portal for Online Search soon. 

We are currently beta testing this data source with select agencies. 

Beta Testing EVVE FOD Data Source in the DNP Portal

FOD means that a reporting jurisdiction has a death certificate on file 

for the searched payee. Although a death certificate may be on file for 

a match, users will not be able to see the actual death certificate in the 

DNP Portal. 

Second, there are nine states that currently do not provide death 

certificate information within the EVVE FOD data source; however, 

it is anticipated that these states will be included by the end of the 

summer 2022. 

Finally, when users conduct a search for a payee against EVVE FOD, 

it is possible that one or more participating jurisdictions may be 

unavailable at the time of the search. An indicator will appear in the 

match results to identify which jurisdictions were unavailable when the 

search was conducted. DNP Portal users may search for the payee again 

at a later time to ensure that previously unavailable jurisdictions are 

included in their next search.

DNP is offering access to EVVE FOD in Online Search to expand its 

portfolio of death data and to provide agencies with additional data for 

payment eligibility activities. DNP currently offers six types of death 

data: 1) American InfoSource Probate records, 2) American InfoSource 

Obituary records, 3) Social Security Administration Death Master File 

Public data, 4) Department of Defense Death Data, 5) Department of 

State Death Data, and 6) EVVE FOD. EVVE FOD is also available in 

analytics services.

If you are interested in learning more about EVVE FOD or 

participating in the beta testing, please contact your Agency Lead and 

Agency Specialist for more details. 

To see the EVVE FOD Quick Reference Card, click HERE.

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EVVE FOD is a data service provided by the National Association 

of Public Health Statistics and Information Services that contains 

information to verify identities by matching against death record 

databases of vital records offices in participating jurisdictions (states and 

U.S. territories). Vital records offices maintain records of births and 

deaths, including certified copies of birth and death certificates.

EVVE FOD has a few unique attributes compared to the other death 

data sources offered in the DNP Portal. First, a match against EVVE 
On March 23, 2022, the Enterprise Investment 

and Architecture Boards unanimously approved 

the Account Verification Service (AVS) to 

exercise the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s last 

option year with PNC Bank and commence 

the Financial Agent Selection Process. This 

new development paves the way for AVS on its 

journey from a pilot to an official Fiscal Service 

program. The AVS pilot, conducted with PNC 

as our Financial Agent, began in September 

of 2020 to evaluate pre-payment information 

regarding account status and to validate the 

account owner information in preparation 

for Economic Impact Payments. The pilot 

also enabled compliance with the National 

Automated Clearing House Association 

requirements for web debits for Revenue 

Collection Management (RCM). 

The pilot has allowed the team to assess coverage, 

effectiveness, accuracy, cost, and responsiveness, 

while still delivering value. Since the pilot began, 

a clear return on investment has been realized, 

including opportunities to reduce fraud and 

improper payments, improved payee experience 

in the way of fewer delays from situations like 

closed accounts, and reduction of paper checks. 

PICOE is fully operational within the 

Internal Revenue Service, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, and Treasury. Each 

of these agencies utilize AVS to assist with 

Fiscal Service Unanimously Approves Use 

of the Account Verification Service (AVS) 

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Pandemic Relief programs. From the 

perspective of customer agencies, AVS 

eliminates payment integrity challenges 

such as lack of real-time information 

on bank account status and ownership, 

slow resolution of potential false 

positives, delayed receipt of funds due 

to incorrect bank account information, 

and enrollment errors in payee claim/

benefit applications. 

As an established program, AVS stands to 

improve payment integrity by ensuring 

payments are delivered in a timely 

manner and accurately. In addition, the 

team looks forward to other enterprisewide operational opportunities to partner 

on AVS throughout the Bureau, such as 

partnering with Rich Site Syndication on 

a microdeposit solution. 

Special thanks to Mark Stromer for his 

leadership and guidance throughout the 

entire pilot and RCM for their partnership 

in making AVS a reality for Fiscal Service! 

Are You Using the 

Unique Entity 

Identifier (UEI) in 

the DNP Portal?

On April 4, 2022, the Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) was replaced by the General 

Services Administration Unique Entity Identifier 

(UEI) through SAM.gov. The UEI consists of 12 

alphanumeric characters and is assigned by the System 

for Award Management (SAM) when a vendor 

registers with SAM to conduct business with the 

federal government. To align with this change, the 

Do Not Pay (DNP) Portal updated several features to 

help users match on the UEI to support their payment 

eligibility verification activities. 

Within the Online Search functionality, authorized 

users may search an entity’s UEI and EFT Indicator 

against the SAM Exclusion Records and SAM 

Entity Registration Records. Agencies that send a 

Batch Matching or Continuous Monitoring file 

and transitioned to the new file format may also see 

match results for the UEI against these data sources. 

Agencies that have not yet transitioned their bulk 

record file to the new UEI-updated format can still 

test and transition their file anytime.

Your DNP Outreach Team can assist you with how 

to use UEI data in the Portal, interpret match results 

with UEI, and test/transition a bulk record file to 

the new UEI-updated format. For further assistance 

related to the UEI in the DNP Portal, please contact 

your Agency Lead and Agency Specialist. 
In August 2019, Do Not Pay (DNP)

implemented the capability of capturing 

Search Outcome information (adjudication 

information) on matches returned in the 

redesigned DNP Portal. This effort was 

the result of a Government Accountability 

Office report recommendation for DNP to 

offer users the ability to provide feedback on 

matches found in DNP modules outside of 

Payment Integration. 

The process to capture this information 

requires a Portal User to manually enter data 

into the following optional fields:

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whether the DNP Portal helped to 

prevent an improper payment. For 

matches identified while adjudicating 

within the Payments functionality, 

you may add a comment next 

to each match to describe why a 

particular payment was proper or 

improper. Additionally, for feedback 

containing Personally Identifiable 

Information, your agency program 

may consider establishing a secure 

file transfer connection with Fiscal 

Service in order to download and 

view results.

As an added benefit to utilizing 

the Search Outcome tool, agencies can also 

request custom data extracts from inputs to 

the Outcome section in the Portal. Once 

your agency has access to the Portal and the 

ability to conduct searches, by using matched 

information, you can determine if a payment/

payee is proper or improper. There are options 

available to provide feedback on whether 

these matches helped your agency program to 

identify or prevent an improper payment. 

Using the Outcome feature is not a 

requirement for using the Portal; however, 

using this feature allows agencies to gather 

additional data regarding the amount of 

FIELD NAME DATA TO ENTER

Dollar Saving Flag Yes or No

Dollar Saving Amount Enter any amount

Dollar Saving Frequency Daily, Weekly, Monthly, 

One-Time, etc.

Payee Category Vendor, Grant, Loan, etc.

Comment Text

Enter any comments that 

would be helpful to keep 

with this record

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potential improper payments that were 

identified using DNP. This information can be 

helpful with year-end reporting, as it includes 

data from the pre-award and pre-payment 

stages of the payment lifecycle on whether a 

match prevented an improper payment, the 

dollar amount of the improper payment 

avoided, the payment frequency, and the 

payment category. It may be beneficial for your 

agency to require completion of the Outcome 

section, to obtain data to assist with financial 

reporting for FY2022. If you are interested 

in learning more about the Outcome tool, 

please contact your Agency Lead and Agency 

Specialist for more information.

For matches found while using the Online 

Search, Batch Matching, and Continuous 

Monitoring functionalities, you can use 

the Search Outcome tool feature to record 
According to Payment Accuracy.

gov, improper payments within 

the Medicaid program exceeded 

$97B in fiscal year 2021.1

 To help 

address this significant amount of 

improper payments, Do Not Pay 

(DNP) has developed a new tool 

to assist state Medicaid program 

offices with identifying potential 

improper payments made to 

deceased individuals.

DNP understands that 

many federally funded, stateadministered programs are 

burdened with researching and 

1 https://www.paymentaccuracy.

gov/payment-accuracy-thenumbers/FY2021Payment 

AccuracyDataset_3_14_2022.xlsx

DNP Medicaid Screening Service to Assist State Medicaid Offices

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attempting to stop payments to 

deceased individuals. The amount 

of time and effort required to 

continuously monitor their 

dataset is significant, and many 

program offices struggle with 

the lack of resources needed to 

identify deceased individuals 

in a timely fashion. Because 

of this delay and despite their 

best efforts, many programs 

unknowingly make payments to 

deceased individuals. 

To assist with this need, DNP 

is creating the DNP Medicaid 

death identification and results 

prioritization is designed to assist 

in research efforts—helping 

partnering program offices save 

time and resources and reduce 

improper payments. 

DNP designed this tool to accept 

a variety of file formats. This 

ensures that any state program 

office wanting to partner with 

DNP can do so with minimal 

effort. The tool also incorporates 

various data quality and integrity 

checks to flag any potential issues 

in customer data and provides 

insights to help enhance internal 

data processes. 

If you are interested in learning 

more about the new DNP MSS 

or any other DNP resources, 

please contact Jon Ortiz at Jon.

Ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov.

Screening Service (MSS) to help 

state offices reduce their burden 

of identifying deceased Medicaid 

clients. The MSS is designed 

to analyze a state’s dataset on 

a recurring basis to proactively 

identify and inform state offices 

of decedents before improper 

payments are disbursed. 

Program offices that want to 

partner with DNP can choose 

a one-time submission or a 

recurring analysis to identify

decedents within their Medicaid 

data files. The MSS utilizes all 

the death data sources currently 

available to DNP, which include 

the Death Master File – Public, 

American InfoSource – Probate 

and Obituary, Department 

of Defense Death Data, 

Department of State Death Data, 

and the Electronic Verification of 

Vital Events Fact of Death service. 

Death matches are ranked 

in order of priority, helping 

customers prioritize their review 

towards the most impactful cases. 

The combination of increased 
The purpose of payment integrity efforts is preventing payments before they are made avoiding the costly 

“pay and chase” process of reclamation. Do Not Pay (DNP) can help by quickly and accurately identifying 

potential improper payments. Here are some success stories that federally funded, state-administered 

programs have had using DNP services. 

• By using DNP’s Continuous Monitoring services, one state was able to recover $125,000 in the 

past six months. More importantly, over $780,000 of future improper payments were identified and 

avoided during the same period! This is significant savings, not only in actual dollars but also time. 

• Another state agency reported that using state resources would have taken 60 hours of effort to 

match payments against data sources. Alternatively, by using DNP resources, it only took ten hours 

of effort, saving them 50 hours which translated into almost $1,400 in savings!

• Finally, DNP helped a third state not only identify over $400,000 in improper payments, but also 

uncover an internal control breakdown affecting millions of dollars of payments. 

These successes highlight how our no-cost DNP services can help your agency save time and money, 

especially before payments are made!

Improper Payments Prevented by States with DNP

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• June 29-30, 2022 

We are hosting The Fiscal 

Service Advisory Council 

(FSAC) Payments Forum.

Click here to register.

Please contact PICOE.Outreach@Fiscal.Treasury.gov

with any questions.

• July 13, 2022 

Payment Integrity Day

Please contact donotpay@

fiscal.treasury.gov for further 

details about this event.

• Do Not Pay (DNP) will 

conduct a data pilot on an 

employment and income 

verification data source. 

DNP will use the pilot to 

understand how this data 

source can benefit DNP 

customers.
Q. Where can I find out more information about how to use the 

Do Not Pay (DNP) Portal, how to complete Recertification, 

and how to adjudicate Payments matches?

A: The DNP website has a Training page where you can access 

videos, quick reference cards, and other resources that will 

help you get the most out of the Portal and DNP services. For 

personalized help, you can always contact your Agency Lead 

or Agency Specialist. You can also call the Do Not Pay Agency 

Support Center at 855-837-4391, or email the Do Not Pay 

Mailbox at donotpay@fiscal.treasury.gov.

Q. I read about Electronic Verification of Vital Events Fact of 

Death (EVVE FOD) being available to limited agencies. When 

will the data be available in the Portal to all DNP users?

A: After beta testing is complete, EVVE FOD will be made 

available to all agencies for Online Search only in the near 

future. Your agency will need to request access by contacting 

your Agency Lead or Agency Specialist.

Q. How does my agency get access to additional data sources in 

the DNP Portal?

A: You will need to be approved to match against additional data 

sources. Contact your Agency Lead or Agency Specialist or 

call 855-837-4391 and someone will help you begin the 

approval process.

DNP Questions and Answers

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Q. If there is a feature currently not in the DNP Portal that would be 

beneficial to my agency, how can I request that feature be added?

A: Contact your Agency Lead or Agency Specialist. They keep track of 

requested features and will help prioritize requests that are frequently 

mentioned and that can have a big cost/time savings impact for you.

Q. How can I learn more about how to use the Outcome section in the 

DNP Portal to keep track of our research into improper payments?

A: Watch the Search Outcome training video from the DNP website.

Q. What should I do if an entity contacts our agency saying that DNP 

has listed their name in error?

A: DNP does not own the data that agencies match against in the Portal 

or for analytics projects. Requests for correcting the original source 

agency’s data should be submitted to the corresponding original 

source agency or service. Data correction contact information is 

available on the DNP website.

Q. What must I do to maintain access to the DNP Portal?

A: In order to maintain access to the DNP Portal, you must reset your 

ISIM password and log in to the Portal within 120 days of your last 

log in.

Q. How do I adjudicate payments?

A: Watch the How To Adjudicate in the Portal video from the 

DNP website.
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