Sep 22 Obamacare signup site to be shut down for 12 hours nearly every Sunday of open enrollment By Laura Santhanam The department has already planned to shorten open enrollment season by 45 days -- running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, 2017 for 2018 coverage. Continue reading
Jul 20 Trump administration ends Affordable Care Act assistance contracts in 18 cities By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press Community groups say the move, announced to them by contractors last week, will make it even more difficult to enroll the uninsured and help people already covered re-enroll or shop for a new policy. That's already a concern because of… Continue reading
Jun 25 HHS Secretary Tom Price addresses Senate health care bill By PBS News Hour Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will be speaking with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic at 12:20 p.m. EST. You can watch live in the player above. Continue reading
Apr 20 Under Trump, states may demand work for Medicaid By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press In a break from past policy, the federal Health and Human Services department has notified governors it stands ready to permit new state programs encouraging work. Continue reading
Feb 08 HHS pick Tom Price made 'brazen' stock trades while his committee was under scrutiny By Marisa Taylor and Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Price showed little restraint in his personal stock trading during the three years that federal investigators were bearing down on a key House committee. Continue reading
Jan 13 Tom Price, Trump's HHS nominee, got a sweetheart deal from a foreign biotech firm By Jay Hancock and Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News When Australian biotech firm Innate Immunotherapeutics needed to raise money last summer, it offered a sweetheart deal to “sophisticated U.S. investors.” One of them was Rep. Tom Price. Continue reading
Jan 02 Medicare launches revamp for treatments of heart attacks, hip fractures By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The cardiac and hip fracture experiments are the latest development in a big push under the Obama administration to reinvent Medicare. Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch 10:41 Will Tom Price take a 'surgical approach' to revising Obamacare? By PBS News Hour Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga) is an orthopedic surgeon and a vocal critic of the Affordable Care Act. He's also President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Sabrina Corlette of Georgetown… Continue watching
Mar 29 Obama turns attention to growing opioid abuse problem By Kevin Freking, Associated Press The trajectory of opioid deaths in the United States is trending in the wrong direction, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. Continue reading
Nov 13 Medicare will spend $9 billion on Hepatitis-C drugs this year By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Medicare spending on breakthrough medications for hepatitis C will nearly double this year, passing $9 billion, according to new government figures. Continue reading