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Sequestration will result in 12% discretionary drop

If sequestration happens as currently called for by the Budget Control Act, it will result in a real drop of 12.1 percent in discretionary spending compared to the current fiscal year, says the Congressional Research Service in a new report.

Medicaid fraud watchdogs under fire at House hearing

Medicaid issued $21.9 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2011, but the program's improper payment rate of 8.1 percent in fiscal 2011 was still an improvement from the 9.4 percent improper payment

Most states only partially verify Medicaid EHR subsidy eligibility, says HHS OIG

Data limitations mean that most states with an incentive program in place for Medicaid providers to adopt electronic health records plan to only partially verify eligibility, says the Health and

CMS must improve data collection guidelines by QIO contractors

Quality Improvement Organizations, which contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, need improved oversight of budgeting and spending because CMS lacks guidelines on how much data

Network proposal to share Medicare/Medicaid data

It's often the case in the vast federal government that one hand doesn't always know what the other is doing. That's the case when it comes to analyzing Medicare and Medicaid information to try to