Before grilling the attorney general about it in person Tuesday, the chairmen of five House committees fired off multiple demand letters on the government’s refusal to defend the federal health care law.
Read moreThirty-five hospitals claim in a federal complaint that the Department of Health and Human Services miscalculated “payment of inpatient hospital days for patients who were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan under part C of the Medicare Act.”
Read moreThe Trump administration announced a new regulation Friday that would withhold federal grant dollars from groups that provide abortions or referrals for abortions.
Read moreThe Center for Investigative Reporting brought a federal complaint to obtain U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement records on its contract with MVM Inc., which transport immigrant children from ICE to U.S. Health and Human Services custody.
Read moreDescribing how an immigration officer taunted her by saying “Happy Mother’s Day” as her 5-year-old son was ripped away at the border, a Guatemalan woman joined seven immigrant families Monday in demanding millions of dollars in damages from the Trump administration.
Read moreHad they known that the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy would involve separating families, a high-ranking government official told lawmakers Thursday that neither he, nor anyone he knew at other federal agencies, would have endorsed it.
Read moreA federal judge granted the American Hospital Association a permanent injunction against Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who exceeded his authority by “reduc(ing) Medicare payments worth billions of dollars to private institutions.”
Read moreA federal judge ordered a seal on the 187-page funding application that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest submitted to keep Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, calling it undisputed that the agency “has not received a FOIA request for records of the awarded contract/grant.”
Read moreAmericans should strive to move more and sit less often each day, according to updated physical activity guidelines released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the first time in a decade.
Read moreEven as a caravan of Central American migrants has become a rallying point for conservative voters, an audit released Wednesday shows that federal agencies remain dazed from the zero-tolerance policy on immigration that the Trump administration rolled out in April.
Read moreThe Trump administration is reportedly considering a new rule which would narrow the definition of gender, a move which could effectively strip 1.4 million transgender people in the United States of hard-won civil rights they only recently began to enjoy.
Read moreThe Center for Food Safety brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for missing mandatory deadlines to designate certain foods as high risk for foodborne illness and to create record-keeping requirements for facilities that handle them.
Read moreA nurse practitioner sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court, claiming it unfairly charged interest and penalties to increase her student loan debt from $30,000 to $216,000.
Read moreThe government wasted at least $341,000 on travel by ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, including booking charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines, an agency watchdog said Friday.
Read morePlanned Parenthood faced a steep battle Thursday as a Trump-appointed judge heard its challenge to new federal grant rules that emphasize abstinence over contraception.
Read moreMedical providers that rely on public funding to offer family-planning services fired off twin federal complaints Wednesday, calling out the Trump administration’s new focus on abstinence education as hopelessly unsound.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated grants awarded for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Read moreThree regional chapters of Planned Parenthood brought a federal complaint over the termination of congressionally appropriated funding for their Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and the program as a whole.
Read moreFacing tense questioning by lawmakers Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declined to elaborate on issues involving the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicare and Medicaid or how the department will address correlations between gun violence and mental health care.
Read moreConcerned that insurers are starting to take advantage of health care upheaval in Washington, Democrats raked the secretary of Health and Human Services over the coals Thursday about new Blue Cross plans in Idaho.
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