Insurers of qualified health plans (QHPs) sold on Healthcare.gov denied an average of 20% of all claims in 2023 – 19% of in-network claims and 37% of out-of-network claims, finds a new KFF survey. The ...

Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a graduate of the University at Albany. As a former member of CNET's How To team, he wrote about the intersection of policy, information and technology, and ...

The US government is headed toward a shutdown if Republicans and Democrats in Congress don’t agree on a spending bill before the end of the day. Should that happen, government services will be ...

Washington, D.C. — A lot can change in a year. At the 2023 Beyond the Beltway event, state and local government budgets were still flush with cash from federal stimulus packages. And that spending was ...

If you signed up for a Social Security online account before Sept. 18, 2021, you may need to update the way you access your benefit information. We'll show you how. Blake has over a decade of ...

According to the International City/County Management Association, many municipalities are only beginning to explore artificial intelligence’s potential in complex budgeting and finance domains. In ...

In Virginia, 71 state agencies use at least some federal funding sources to pay their employees. Beginning Wednesday, the state is expected to furlough at least a dozen employees across several ...