The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing a proposal to update the regulations governing the Title X family planning program, which focuses on serving low-income Americans. The proposed update to the regulations ensures compliance with statutory program integrity provisions governing the program and, in particular, the statutory prohibition on funding “programs ...
The Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the Stage 2 winner of the “Secure API Server Showdown” Challenge. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are technology that allow one software program to access the services provided by another software program. The 21st Century Cures Act ...
HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the FDA’s approval of the first non-opioid treatment for the symptoms of opioid withdrawal: “President Trump and HHS have made fighting the opioid crisis a top priority. That includes working to expand the set of tools we have for solving this crisis, such as new therapies ...
Today, Secretary Azar delivered remarks on President Trump’s blueprint to bring down the high price of prescription drugs and put American patients first, here are a few excerpts from his speech as prepared for delivery: “You heard President Trump make it clear on Friday how important tougher negotiation is. That is exactly what our plan ...
Today, the Trump Administration released “American Patients First,” the President’s blueprint to lower drug prices and reduce out-of-pocket costs. Below is the blueprint’s introductory message from HHS Secretary Alex Azar: The United States is first in the world in biopharmaceutical investment and innovation. Combining our free market system and generous public investment made America home to ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the appointment of 28 members to the new Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force will hold its inaugural public meeting on May 30, 2018, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, and on May 31, 2018, from 9 ...
A new treatment for seizures that cannot be stopped with current medicines will be developed under an agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and Proniras Corporation of Seattle, Washington. Uncontrollable seizures are a devastating result of exposure to nerve agents ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to announce a partnership with the American Society of Nephrology to launch the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), KidneyX will engage a community of researchers, innovators, and investors to enable and accelerate the commercialization of therapies to benefit people with and at risk for kidney ...
Following the early April release of the Surgeon General’s Advisory on Naloxone and Opioid Overdose, which recommended that opioid treatment providers prescribe or dispense naloxone to patients with elevated risk of overdose, two naloxone manufacturers (Adapt Pharma and kaleo, Inc.) announced this week that they will be partnering with the National Council on Behavioral Health ...
On Tuesday, HHS’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the draft Fiscal Year 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule, which contains proposals to advance HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s agenda for moving to a healthcare system that pays for value, as well as a request for information regarding future value-based reforms. Secretary Azar issued ...
