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The Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Counterterrorism Center are two federal components balancing opportunities and limitations on big data.
Health care providers recently won a big lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services. The providers contended HHS was failing to meet deadlines for settling administrative appeals to Medicare. Now HHS has a big homework assignment from the court. Attorney Scot Hasselman, a partner at Reed Smith, offers insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The most recent plan to save the Postal Service involves taking a page out of the private sector’s book: required enrollment in Medicare.
Earlier this summer, a team of FBI and Health and Human Services investigators completed a long investigation that snared 301 people trying to bilk Medicare out of $900 million. Caryl Bryzmialkiewicz, the chief data officer and assistant inspector general at HHS, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how they used data to find the culprits.
Two postal reform bills passed the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, although not without opposition or concerns.
Members of the House Oversight Committee unveiled draft legislation to reform the Postal Service. The agency is struggling to keep up with Congressional funding mandates as well as shifting volumes of mail.
Fraudulent providers to Medicare and Medicaid make up only a small percentage of all providers. But they account for an outsized percentage of misspent dollars. One way to cut improper payments is to keep such providers out of the system in the first place with stronger enrollment controls. Seto Bagdoyan, director of forensic audits and investigative services at the Government Accountability Office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the latest look at this problem.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), says a bill is being drafted to address Postal Service reforms. The reforms include addressing the mandate to pre-fund health retiree benefits, as well as merging the USPS Board of Governors and the Postal Regulatory Commission.
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
Open Season is coming to a close and if you haven’t already made a decision on your federal health insurance, there’s no time like the present, says federal benefits expert Walton Francis.
The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers needs to rise substantially to trigger any cost of living adjustments. At this point, that doesn't seem very likely.
If your regular September game plan is to recover from your vacation and focus on back-to-school stuff, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you picked the wrong month this year.
Even without all the fireworks caused by furloughs and the government shutdown that occurred in 2013, Federal News Radio readers found plenty to intrigue them in 2014. Read our 10 most-read stories for 2014.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey is on vacation. Today's guest columnist explains why it might be a good idea for FEHBP participants to enroll in Medicare.