IHS pauses some care services amid government shutdown
The Indian Health Service, an HHS agency tasked with providing health services to American Indians and Alaska natives, has stopped several care services due to the government shutdown, Kaiser Health News reports. Parts of the federal government shut down Dec. 22 after...
House Small Business Committee Proposes Legislation to End Self-Certification for SDVOSB
On November 27, 2018, the House Committee on Small Business introduced House Resolution 7169, the proposed Verification Alignment and Service-disabled Business Adjustment (VA-SBA) Act.1 The purpose of this new legislation is to facilitate the transfer of...
Starting small, GSA will limit online shopping portals to $10,000 per purchase
A year after the president signed legislation meant to ease federal buyers into online shopping, the General Services Administration presented vendors with its current thinking on how to implement the new e-commerce portals on Wednesday. The focus, officials said, is...
VA hospitals outperform private hospitals in most markets, according to Dartmouth study
According to an independent Dartmouth study recently published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals outperform private hospitals in most health care markets throughout the country. “This is proof that the hard work...