Medicaid

A portion of President Donald Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and released by the Office of Management and Budget, is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

New center from HUD and HHS helps people with disabilities find housing

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expanding a partnership with several Health and Human Services agencies.

Management

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018 file photo, the U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed in Washington. The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to run U.S. health insurance programs, putting in place a key player who’ll carry out his strategy for expanding affordable coverage and reining in prescription drug costs. Obama-era policy adviser Chiquita Brooks-LaSure will be the first Black woman to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, which also administers children’s health insurance and the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate confirms Brooks-LaSure to run health care programs

People

Kevin Plexico, right, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek, with John Thomas Flynn. (Amelia Brust/Federal News Network)

State and local IT market forecasting — pre-coronavirus: Part 2

Ask the CIO: SLED

Wikipedia

Department of Health and Human Services building

HHS inspector general issues recommendations for agency effectiveness, cost savings

Federal Drive

(DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Kelly Simon, U.S. Army)

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone Lawrence, right, places a temporary teal ribbon tattoo on a Soldier's hand at the Koele dining facility at Bagram Airfield in Parwan province, Afghanistan, April 2, 2014. The teal ribbon was the symbol of sexual assault survivors and awareness. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Kelly Simon, U.S. Army/Released)

IG: Veterans Benefits Administration wrongly denied hundreds of military sexual trauma claims

Federal Newscast

HHS watchdog podcast takes behind-the-scenes look at health care fraud

Agency Oversight

Nick Marinos: Medicare, Medicaid may lack training for data protection

Federal Drive

New tool to help agencies request bigger incentive payouts

Federal Newscast

Jennifer Main: Who keeps CMS’ $700M budget running smoothly?

Federal Drive

Katherine Iritani: CMS lacks oversight of managed care programs

Federal Drive

Tom O’Donnell: HHS watchdog uncovers $1.3B in Medicare, Medicaid fraud

Federal Drive

Richard Stern: Tracking down Medicaid fraud

Federal Medicaid dollars are spent by the states. The Health and Human Services Department requires states to have Medicaid Fraud Control Units that hunt…

Federal Drive

Federal managers working on ‘culture change’ for cross-component data sharing

The Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Counterterrorism Center are two federal components balancing opportunities and limitations…

Technology

Treasury prints money, HHS burns it

Tom Temin Commentary

Approve of them or not, these vast and Byzantine federal programs at the ground level provide lifelines to millions of people. So summary execution of them is no answer.