CCMSD financials given clean bill of health

Crook County Medical Services District (CCMSD) was given a relatively clean audit report last week, courtesy of Scott Nelson of Eide Bailly of Montana.

Only two issues were noted in the report, neither of which came as a surprise. Both, said Nelson, are common issues for smaller medical organizations.

The first was a concern that has been noted over the years for almost every governing body receiving an audit in the county: lack of complete segregation of duties.

This occurs when an entity lacks the employees to be able to assign a different person to every individual stage of a transaction. T...