Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

One prescription for runaway Medicare costs

Medicare spending is among the top drivers of the nation’s expanding debt. It’s not the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to set policy, It’s…

Pay & Benefits

(AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2015, file photo, depicts a part of a U.S. $100 bill. A new government report estimates that government will be paying nearly half the nation’s health care tab within 10 years. That’s even without “Medicare-for-all,” the government-run plan for all Americans that some Democratic presidential contenders are calling for. Driving the increase is traditional Medicare, experiencing a surge in enrollment as aging baby boomers shift out of private coverage. The report comes from nonpartisan experts with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Accenture Federal Services acquires major federal contractor

Federal Newscast

Understanding the data is the first step for NIH, CMS to prepare for AI

Ask the CIO

Exclusive

Education, DHS among agencies seeking new IT leaders

Reporter's Notebook

As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

Pay

Using Medicare data to uncover hidden signs of elder abuse

Management

A health care data and AI concept showing charts and graphs overlaid across medical equipment.

How cross-sector collaboration can optimize healthcare data and advance equity

Commentary

A potential shutdown couldn’t come at a worst time for Medicaid

Benefits

Federal contract workers’ calls for higher wages reveal deeper questions of contractor pay

Workforce Rights/Governance

Ransomware attackers steal personal info of over 600K Medicare beneficiaries

Federal Newscast

The ‘new-new’ normal? More agencies bumping up in-office work

Workforce

The Department of Health and Human Services building

HHS Inspector General needs more money to combat medical fraud

More government will lead to taxpayer dollars stolen through fraud. However, it also means more money is needed to combat that fraud.

Agency Oversight

The government’s financial statements are out and they’re not pretty

The government’s latest consolidated financial statements would give a normal CFO hives. Material control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, serious…

Agency Oversight

CMS cyber chief puts focus on ‘soft skills’ in the cybersecurity field

Cybersecurity

The CISO at CMS is pushing cybersecurity professionals to hone their “soft skills.”