health care

Bart Stichman, executive director of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, discusses the ongoing health care battle between some veterans and the VA.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is out with its latest data set showing the performance of almost every hospital in the United States. Is it time for an update?

Large numbers of veterans today have grown up with technology, and now the Department of Veterans Affairs and Apple are collaborating to bring vital information to their iPhones.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the U.S. Postal Service is asking industry for an autonomous vehicle that can follow a route while a mail carrier is able to sort the mail for delivery.

How about a merger of the health systems operated by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs? Bloomberg Government analysts Rob Levinson and Megan Howard had more details.

The more accessible and standardized the data, the faster and better research can take place. That’s in part the idea behind a National Institutes of Health information technology initiative known as STRIDES.

When low premiums are a must it’s hard to beat the federal employee health benefits program. Uncle Sam pays the lion’s share of the premium and there are some bargains in the program, if you know where to look.

Workers and retirees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program have several choices: They can shop around, talk with their primary physicians, or, like most people they can do nothing.

Walton Francis, editor of Consumers Checkbook Guide to Federal Health Plans, joined host Mike Causey on this week’s Your Turn to talk about best buys during FEHBP open season and why more people need to switch health care plans.

The possibility of a Dec. 7 partial government shutdown is another good reason feds and especially retired government workers should pick their 2019 health plan ASAP.