Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Treasury won’t explain decision to make $3 billion in Obamacare payments

Beltway Confidential

Treasury won’t explain decision to make $3 billion in Obamacare payments

Philip Klein · February 26, 2015 11:11 am

Of the total 8.8 million enrollees on healthcare.gov, 53 percent were new, with the rest re-enrolling in the program, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

More than half of federal Obamacare enrollees were new in 2015

Robert King · February 25, 2015 8:58 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote to Sen. Hatch Tuesday, effectively saying that the administration has no alternative plan to Obamacare. (Washington Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Administration: No Obamacare contingency plan

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 25, 2015 12:02 am

Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Syliva Burwell, speaks at the American Medical Association National Advocacy Conference in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Administration pushes Medicare drug benefits

Robert King · February 24, 2015 4:11 pm

Nine Department of Health and Human Services inspector general reports, published in 2012, 2013, 2014 and earlier this month, focused on cases in which state Medicaid programs could potentially save millions of dollars on equipment like oxygen supplies, hospital beds and mail-order diabetic supplies, as well as standard power wheelchairs, oxygen systems and oxygen concentrators. (iStock image)

Seven states overpaid for Medicaid durable medical equipment

alicia-hesse · February 24, 2015 1:20 pm

White House: 11.4 million Obamacare enrollees

White House: 11.4 million Obamacare enrollees

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 18, 2015 12:37 am

HHS Pushes Church Talking Points, Bulletins to Promote Obamacare

Jeryl Bier · February 15, 2015 2:21 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander. AP Photo

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Race on to speed OK of new drugs, devices

Paul Bedard · February 12, 2015 9:20 pm

Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, questions a witness during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing looking into the effectiveness of vaccines in the wake of a measles outbreak and the exceptionally severe flu season, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, February 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

GAO: Web of programs for mentally ill need coordination

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 5, 2015 8:40 pm

Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

U.S. Surgeon General: Medical marijuana ‘can be helpful’

Kelly Cohen · February 5, 2015 1:04 pm

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Watchdog finds safety hazards at government-funded daycares

Sarah Bedford · February 4, 2015 10:38 pm

No backup plan at HHS if Supreme Court strikes down subsidies

No backup plan at HHS if Supreme Court strikes down subsidies

Susan Ferrechio · February 4, 2015 4:43 pm