7 Key Takeaways | The Changing Landscape of Federal Funding in the Trump Administration
On July 7, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Policy for Extramural Research issued NOT-OD-25-128, titled “Guidance on Enforcement of Closeout Requirements During the Appeals Process” (the Notice). The...more
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on April 21, 2025, a significant change to the terms and conditions governing federal funding (the Notice) applicable to all NIH grants, cooperative agreements and other...more
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more
Many K-12 and institutes of higher education are concerned about the potential threat to their federal funding given recent changes to the way the government is interpreting existing federal law to achieve certain policy...more
A coalition of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would have...more
The proposed cuts would place a 15% indirect cost rate on all new and existing grant awards received by research institutions and universities....more
Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has introduced sweeping changes across the federal government that have impacted the federal grantee and contractor community. Adding to these changes, the National Institutes...more
SUMMARY: On February 7, 2025, the Office of the Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice (Notice No. NOT-OD-25-068) imposing a cap of 15% on the indirect cost rates that can be charged to the...more
The first week of the Trump Administration brought a whirlwind of activity and significant changes across many federal agencies. New Executive Orders (EOs), agency directives, and leadership transitions have sent ripples...more
The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order which will allow the Biden administration to withhold $4.5 million of federal funding from the Oklahoma State Department of Health. This decision is one in a wave of...more
The United States has been facing a mental health crisis for years, made only worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our leaders in Washington, D.C. are attempting to address it. A few weeks ago, we covered the Restoring Hope for...more
HHS sent notices to noncompliant physicians and facilities on March 10, 2022 giving them 30 days to return funds paid to healthcare providers who have not complied with the agency’s reporting requirements....more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 9 (September, 2021) - A former Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researcher who was the principal investigator on a 2014 NIH award of $939,495.27 and...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 6 (June 2021) - Clemson University is pushing back against recommendations by auditors for the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (OIG) that it repay $276,440,...more
In Washington: The House is expected to take a final vote on Wednesday morning to pass the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. The House received the bill and processing papers from the Senate on Tuesday morning. After the...more
In Washington: Wednesday, the House held its leadership elections reelecting Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as Speaker of the House by her caucus. Other top Democratic leaders, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Majority...more
On October, 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of an additional $20 billion in relief funding for providers – including specifically for behavioral health providers and...more
We previously discussed how recipients of payments from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) are at risk for allegations of fraud and specifically addressed how these recipients may become targets of False Claims Act (FCA)...more
With some areas of the United States starting to reopen, recipients are beginning to ramp up for performance on federal grant projects. But many aspects of the reopening phase and recipients' ability to timely ramp-up remain...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 6 (June 2020) - With the recent appointment of an HHS leader as its permanent director and a former Johns Hopkins misconduct official to another key post, the HHS Office of Research...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 16 (April 27, 2020) - Because of the coronavirus, the talents of a business development executive at a hospital are wasted, and the chief financial officer (CFO) is wondering whether...more
On April 7, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced during a White House briefing that the United States Department of Health and Human Services would be distributing $30 billion to...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 4 (April 2020) The Food and Drug Administration has accused a University of Michigan physician and professor of conducting research for more than three years after his approval from the...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently published its Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress. The report, released June 3, 2019, covers the period October 1, 2018...more