STAT Plus: HHS criticizes Lilly for seeking to curtail discounts for safety-net hospitals
In a stern rebuke, the Department of Health and Human Services has taken Eli Lilly (LLY) to task for its recent decision to curtail the...
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Aborted Plan to Give Every American a Mask; HHS Outlines Vax Plan
(MedPage Today) — The White House had a plan to send cloth masks to every U.S. household in April, according to internal emails, but then...
HHS Outlines COVID Vax Distribution Strategy
(MedPage Today) — The Health and Human Services (HHS) department on Wednesday unveiled general outlines for how the first COVID-19 vaccine doses will be shipped...
Lack of Antigen Tests Has U.S. ‘Blind to Pandemic’
A KHN review found more than 20 states either don’t count or have incomplete data on the use of COVID-19 antigen tests, leaving the public...
HHS plan to improve rural health focuses on better broadband, telehealth services
Knowing it may be met with some skepticism, the Trump administration Thursday announced a sweeping plan that officials say will transform health care in rural...
HHS to Spend $255M on 'Hope'; Ignore CDC? Oxford Vax's U.S. Trial Begins
(MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $250 million on...
HHS launches Healthy People 2030 to address ‘critical health priorities, challenges’
HHS recently announced its Healthy People 2030 initiative to address what the agency called the “most critical public health priorities and challenges” in the United...
HHS Bullies Hospitals; Florida's Public Health Fail; Who's Leading Pfizer's Vaccine Efforts?
(MedPage Today) — Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Hospitals Strong-Armed into...
Healthy People 2030: HHS Prioritizes Socioeconomic Disparities, Overall Well-Being
(MedPage Today) — With the reveal of Healthy People 2030, national public health goals for the next 10 years now place greater emphasis on social...
Pharmacists Can Give Routine Vaccinations to Children, HHS Says
(MedPage Today) — WASHINGTON — A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision allowing pharmacists to administer routine vaccinations to children during the COVID-19...
HHS extends application deadlines for financial assistance programs
HHS announced that Medicaid, Medicaid managed care, Children’s Health Insurance Program and dental providers as well as certain Medicare providers experiencing financial difficulty stemming from...
STAT Plus: State attorneys general urge HHS to sidestep Gilead patents to increase remdesivir access
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is urging the federal government to sidestep the patents held by Gilead Sciences (GILD) for remdesivir, the only...
STAT Plus: In unusual arrangement, deputy HHS secretary’s wife has been lobbying the agency on behalf of health care companies
WASHINGTON — Emily Hargan, who is married to Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, has been lobbying the agency for roughly...
More than 100 industry groups ask Trump to reverse HHS data reporting requirement
The public health, research, medical, science and legal organizations all voiced concerns about data availability and transparency under the new process, which instructs hospitals to...