Taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million a week to keep 420 radio staffers out of work The United States Agency for Global Media can’t document 99% of the gear from Voice of America that it dumped in 2025. Fortune · 12h ago
Antipsychotics Carry an FDA Boxed Warning in Dementia, so Memory Care Families Should Ask These Questions First A Michigan family's clash with a memory care facility over sedating drugs shows why families should ask how antipsychotics are used in dementia care. Medical Daily · Oct 2
Judge Lets CalPERS Suit Proceed on Claims UnitedHealth Masked Medicare Advantage Weakness but Dismisses Most Allegations A judge let part of CalPERS' suit against UnitedHealth proceed but dismissed most claims, including upcoding. Here's what it means for Medicare. Medical Daily · Oct 2
More Than 230 Health Groups Warn Medicare Remote Monitoring Vendor Limits Could Disrupt Care Starting in 2027 More than 230 health groups warn that a Medicare plan to stop paying for vendor-run remote monitoring could disrupt care for over 1 million people in 2027. Medical Daily · Sep 16
'Alligator Alcatraz' Held Detainees in Small Metal Cages, Inspector General Report Finds An inspection of the now-closed detention camp found overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and an "unprecedented" use of small metal cells to confine detainees. Reason · Sep 14
Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’ The Guardian - US · Sep 14
Trump's Ex-Labor Secretary Massaged Security Aide's Shoulders as Staff Endured 'Beatdowns' in 'Toxic' Workplace, Report An investigation reveals former US Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's misconduct, toxic workplace culture, resource misuse, and inappropriate relationships, leading to her resignation. International Business Times UK · Sep 4
ICE Reportedly Lowered Its Standards To Meet Trump's Hiring Goal Trump has criticized DEI initiatives for lowering hiring standards. A whistleblower now says ICE did that on purpose. Reason · Sep 3
HHS Refers Hospitals, Pharmacies and Benefit Managers to Federal Investigators Over Youth Gender Care Billing Codes HHS referred health systems, pharmacies, and PBMs to the OIG and the Department of Justice for billing codes used for gender care in minors. Medical Daily · Aug 17
Senators Demand Records from Three Medicare Advantage Insurers on How Post-Hospital Care Gets Denied Blumenthal and Hawley demanded records from UnitedHealthcare, Humana and CVS on AI use in denying post-hospital rehab care for Medicare patients. Medical Daily · Aug 4
CMS Flags 50 Medicaid Providers in Data Sweep, Including Billing for Tests Patients Did Not Need CMS says its Medicaid Fraud War Room flagged 50 providers and blocked $203 million. Here is what it means if your provider is on the list. Medical Daily · Jul 29
USDA Charges 33 Los Angeles-Area SNAP Retailers With Fraud Following Federal Sting Operation The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) has announced that 33 SNAP-authorized retailers in the Los Angeles area have been charged following a coordinated federal enforcement operation targeting alleged fraud within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to the USDA, investigators from the USDA Office of… Everybody Loves Your Money · Jul 29
Federal Watchdog Recovered $5.56 Billion in Healthcare Fraud and Banned 1,212 Providers from Medicare The HHS OIG recovered $5.56 billion in healthcare fraud from October 2025 to March 2026 and banned 1,212 providers from Medicare. Here is what the report means for patients. Medical Daily · Jul 25
Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should live in NASA's lunar outpost? A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, needs to be considered for success. Space · Jul 9
Space · Jul 1 NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again? A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and focuses on issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
Medical Daily · Jun 27 Free Cancer Tests at Health Fairs Could Be Part of a Medicare Fraud Scheme, Officials Warn Free cancer test offers at health fairs may be Medicare fraud. A 2026 OIG report found genetic tests = 43% of Medicare lab billing. Here's how to spot it and report it.
Space · Jun 26 NASA's canceled Artemis hardware contracts reached $5.9 billion, audit finds A memo issued by NASA Office of Inspector General highlights huge cost increases and extended timelines for Artemis program hardware that has since been canceled.
Fortune · Jun 26 Washington gutted the office that manages your student loans. Next week, it has to reinvent them On July 1, the biggest student loan overhaul in decades kicks in. The agency running it lost 40% of its staff and is blocking its own watchdog from seeing the damage.
Medical Daily · Jun 25 $10 Billion Medicare Billing Scheme Allegedly Inflated Premiums for Millions of Americans Medicare wound care skin substitute billing swelled from $256M to $10B in five years through fraud and abuse. Here's how it raised your Part B premiums and what changed in 2026.
International Business Times UK · Jun 9 Man With No Criminal Record Dies in Louisiana ICE Facility Which Inspectors Already Flagged for Excessive Force Mamuka Artmeladze, a Georgian national, died in a Louisiana ICE detention centre flagged for banned use-of-force tactics. His death, the 19th in ICE custody this year, raises serious concerns.
inkl · May 29 Why the Era of Chart Mining in Medicare Advantage Is Coming to an End Chart mining, the practice of sending coders into historical medical records to find diagnosis codes that were clinically present but never submitted to CMS, has been a cornerstone of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment for nearly two decades. Health plans hired vendors to process millions of charts annually. Coders identified diagnoses.…
International Business Times UK · May 24 Federal Audit Targets Kristi Noem's $38 Billion ICE Detention Plan After Warehouses Bought 13% Over Market Value A federal audit is investigating the Department of Homeland Security's £760 million expenditure on warehouses for ICE detention, scrutinising Kristi Noem's £28.6 billion initiative amid bipartisan criticism and concerns from contractors.
Euronews · May 19 US lawmakers raise alarm over legality of Pentagon's lethal drug boat strikes Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have questioned whether the military has the legal authority to use lethal force against civilian-style vessels in international waters outside of a declared theatre of war.
The Mary Sue · Apr 24 Trump fired the DOJ official set to testify on Epstein files. Now the inspector general wants answers before the next cover-up The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general is stepping in to audit how the agency handled the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s files after a string of missteps, missed deadlines, and accusations of a cover-up. The move comes just weeks after former AG Pam Bondi who was set to testify about…
The Times of India · Apr 23 US justice department launches probe into Epstein files handling The US justice department’s internal watchdog will now be reviewing the department's handling of the Epstein files. The move comes after repeated complaints from survivors over the leak of personal information and questions over compliance with a disclosure law.