Regulatory Oversight, Healthcare Reform, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Can Food Really Be Medicine? Transforming Health Care One Bite at a Time – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/31/2025

Can food really be the prescription for better health? Discover how the “Food as Medicine” movement is reshaping health care and what it means for patients, providers, and the future of wellness. On this episode, special...more

The Leaked OMB Passback Document: What It Is and Isn’t

McDermott+ on 4/24/2025

Last week, a sensitive internal government document was leaked to the public: the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) passback to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laying out proposed...more

HHS Restructuring and Workforce Reductions – Key Implications for the Health Care Industry

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/15/2025

As spring arrived in the mid-Atlantic region, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed through with a previously announced Reduction in Force (RIF) that reduced the department’s...more

HHS and OMB Confirmation Watch: Implications for Health Care and Federal Budgets

Polsinelli on 2/5/2021

The confirmations of Cabinet secretaries and federal agency directors by the U.S. Senate are critical and early milestones in any new President’s administration. Permanent department leadership allows the executive branch to...more

Will FDA be forced to implement a drug importation program?

Hogan Lovells on 7/23/2019

Over a year ago, HHS Secretary Alex Azar requested that FDA establish a working group to explore how drug importation “could help address price hikes and supply disruptions.” The FDA working group was not assigned the task of...more

HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Changes to Section 1557 Rules: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

Polsinelli on 7/19/2019

On May 24, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced its proposed changes to the regulations issued under Section 1557 of the Affordable Act Care (“ACA”). Section 1557 is the primary...more

First Steps: Trump Administration's Initial Executive Actions Target the Affordable Care Act and Obama Administration's Midnight...

Hogan Lovells on 1/23/2017

On Friday, January 20, 2017—within hours of President Trump’s inauguration—the new Administration took its first executive actions. These executive actions included: President Trump's issuance of an Executive Order...more

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