Health
Hospital CEOs Face Questions Over "Borderline Extortion" Pricing
Why it matters: The House Ways and Means Committee put the nation's largest hospital systems on the hot seat Tuesday, with Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) telling...
Senate Blocks Patient Protection Amendment To Prevent Insurance Delays and Denials
A Senate bid to protect patients from insurance company delays and denials of medical care collapsed Wednesday when floor vote 1192s97 failed to clear the...
Children's Hospital Association Battles Medicaid Cuts
The Children's Hospital Association filed a First Quarter 2026 lobbying disclosure reporting $1.44 million in federal lobbying expenditures, as the...
RFK Jr. Faces Bipartisan Opposition Over $15.8B HHS Cuts
Why it matters: The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies convened Tuesday, April 21, for an HHS FY2027 budget...
PMI Escalates Lobbying Amid FDA Scrutiny
PMI US Corporate Services Inc. filed an amended lobbying disclosure for the First Quarter of 2026, reporting $2.38 million in in-house lobbying activity....
Novo Nordisk Ends 3.5-Year Obesity Therapeutics Lobbying Engagement
Novo Nordisk Inc. ended its lobbying relationship with Public Strategies Washington Inc. effective February 1, 2026, according to a Q1 2026 LDA filing...
Committee Examines Federal Trust Obligations to Tribes
Federal funding for the Indian Health Service sits at the center of a long-standing debate over whether the U.S. government is meeting its trust and treaty...
Hospital CEOs Face Medicare, Medicaid Budget Cuts
The House Ways and Means Committee is bringing health system CEOs to Capitol Hill at a moment when Congress is actively reshaping the federal budget, with...
House Overwhelmingly Passes Rural Healthcare Bill, Extending $80M Annual Funding Through 2030
The Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act clears the House 406-4, with both parties aligned on extending federal grants through 2030.
Committee Tackles Billions in Medicare Fraud Losses
Medicare fraud costs the federal government tens of billions of dollars annually — money that flows out of a program serving more than 65 million Americans....
Zimmer Biomet Reports $185K Lobbying Spend, Issues Undisclosed
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. filed its First Quarter 2026 lobbying disclosure this week, reporting $185,000 in in-house lobbying expenditures — but with a...
Committee Votes on Expiring Public Health Programs
A package of ten public health bills — covering everything from ALS research to school-based health clinics to tick-borne disease — lands before the House...
PBM Profits Under Fire: Congress Demands Accountability
Pharmacy benefit managers — the largely invisible intermediaries that negotiate drug prices between manufacturers, insurers, and pharmacies — are facing a...
Committee Scrutinizes HHS Budget Amid Leadership Turmoil
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health is set to examine the FY 2027 HHS Budget on April 21 — a hearing that arrives as Congress wrestles with...
House Panel Pushes Health Bills Despite HHS Budget Cuts
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health convened April 15 to examine ten public health bills — from ALS research to...
House Blocks Symbolic Women's Health Measure
An amendment to recognize polycystic ovary syndrome failed Friday along strict party lines, 208-199, in a vote that exposed deep divisions over women's...
Michael J. Fox Foundation Lobbies on Parkinson's Research Funding
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research filed its First Quarter 2026 lobbying disclosure, reporting $190,000 in in-house lobbying...
Senate Examines HHS Budget Amid Proposed Cuts
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is set to examine the White House's Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Department of Health...