GAO Decision on Withholding of AHRQ Funds – The Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent, non-partisan agency that works for Congress, released a report on Wednesday asserting that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) fiscal year (FY) 2025 withholding of funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality was illegal. HHS …
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HELP, Finance Advance HHS Nominees – The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee favorably reported the following nominations en bloc to the full Senate by a party line vote of 12-11 last week: Nicole Saphier, MD to be Surgeon General/Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service; Timothy Westlake, MD to be Assistant Secretary …
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White House Drops Plan to Issue Executive Order on NIH Research – On Wednesday, Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced that the White House has agreed to abandon plans to issue an executive order to establish a board of political appointees to oversee the awarding of grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The announcement …
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