Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

  • The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.

    April 08, 2016
  • To help control costs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has been experimenting with a program to pay qualifying health care providers based on outcomes rather than on transactions. CMS Innovation Director Rahul Rajkumar tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin 30 percent of Medicare and Medicaid expenditures are through the so-called accountable care organizations a year ahead of schedule.

    April 05, 2016
  • The Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general highlighted several areas agencies should focus on when developing IT projects, including creating a badgeless culture with industry partners, better integration of policy and technology and a “ruthless prioritization” of capabilities.

    March 24, 2016
  • The Office of Information Policy published data on FOIA request processing from the annual reports of 100 agencies.

    March 15, 2016
  • Most of the increase in the government's improper payments during 2015 comes from a higher rate of payment errors in the Medicaid program.

    February 26, 2016
  • Reported improper payments are likely to increase as agencies improve their ability to ferret out overpayments and underpayments

    February 25, 2016
  • Indiana avoided $80 million in what the feds would call improper payments, and now the crooked filers are moving on.

    February 04, 2016
  • At the Health and Human Services Department, chief information officers are so concerned with operating IT networks that they skimp on cybersecurity, according to report by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It says chief information security officers should report to agencies' top lawyers.

    August 07, 2015
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has had only partial success stopping fraudulent doctors and suppliers from signing up to receive payments. Billions of dollars are at stake. That's according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Two of CMS' screening procedures work well, but GAO found major weaknesses in two others. Seto Bagdoyan is director of the Forensic Audits and Investigative Service at GAO. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the report.

    July 27, 2015
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services claims its Fraud Prevention System did its job last year, saving $454 million in improper and fraudulent payments to medical providers. But the Inspector General at Health and Human Services, CMS' parent department, isn't so sure. It says a more realistic estimate is about one third of that, or closer to $133 million. Richard Navarro is the audit manager in Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain this discrepancy.

    July 23, 2015
  • As more and more agencies hire chief data officers, the question arises, what’s the difference between data and information? And where does the chief information officer fit into the discussion? In the first part of our special report, Deconstructing the CDO, federal CIOs and CDOs agree there is room for both as agencies mature their use and understanding of data.

    July 07, 2015
  • By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agencies set a new record for improper payments last year, shelling out $125 billion in questionable benefits after years of declines. The payments included tax credits…

    March 17, 2015
  • For more than 20 years, a driving principle behind federal procurement is a simple one: To the extent possible, the government should buy regular commercial items under regular commercial terms and conditions. That idea is enshrined in law and regulation. So when it doesn't happen, companies protest. In a dispute between contractor CGI Federal and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the U.S. Court of Appeals reaffirmed that commercial principle. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain why the ruling is so important.

    March 12, 2015
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced she will be leaving the agency at the end of February. During her tenure, Tavenner has overseen the roll out of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

    January 16, 2015