Medicaid

Agencies continue to struggle with overspending when doling out benefits

GAO found these payments were made to dead people or those who are no longer eligible for the benefits in question.

Federal Newscast

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Government Accountability Office, federal budget oversight

This line of federal improper spending is among the most galling

Agency Oversight

The rest of fiscal 2023 is shaping up to be an extra-rocky time for contractors

Contracting

Will telehealth — which exploded during the pandemic — continue to boom?

Technology

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

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

HHS inspector general issues recommendations for agency effectiveness, cost savings

Federal Drive

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

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management produced a series of templates to help agencies make requests for recruitment, retention…

Federal Newscast

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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a massive mission. Some 100 million Americans receive its services. It expends some $700 billion a year.

Federal Drive

Katherine Iritani: CMS lacks oversight of managed care programs

Federal Drive

GAO says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services doesn’t have enough oversight of managed care programs.