Daniel Payne

1 day ago | statnews.com | John Wilkerson |Daniel Payne

The Senate parliamentarian struck down several major health care measures in Republicans’ tax bill, including Medicaid changes that the GOP was counting on to help pay for President Trump’s tax cuts. The parliamentarian’s decision is a major challenge to Republicans’ plans to reap savings from the Medicaid program and could lead lawmakers to look for new savings across federal programs. It may make it more difficult for them to pass the bill ahead of Trump’s July 4 deadline.

1 week ago | statnews.com | Daniel Payne |John Wilkerson

WASHINGTON — The Senate returns next week with critical choices on Medicaid policies that could cost hospitals billions of dollars and lead to millions losing coverage. Hospitals are scrambling to control the damage. Last month, the House passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which would help pay for President Trump’s tax cuts with reductions in federal spending on Medicaid. Last week, the Senate Finance Committee unveiled its version, which includes steeper Medicaid cuts.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Matthew Herper |Isabella Cueto |Elizabeth Cooney |Andrew Joseph |Daniel Payne | +1 more

For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have relied on outside experts to guide the agency’s recommendations on how vaccines should be used to prevent the spread of infectious disease. That task will now fall to a panel that includes several individuals who’ve either been openly critical of vaccines or who have scant infectious disease expertise.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Daniel Payne |Elaine Chen

WASHINGTON — Executives at pharmaceutical companies have been bracing for more information from the Trump administration this week about how it planned to lower drug prices. That information has not yet arrived, despite the administration’s self-imposed deadline to disclose by Wednesday the target prices for drugs, part of its plan to ensure Americans would pay no more than the lowest price for drugs paid by peer nations. The task was to be carried out by health secretary Robert F.

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Daniel Payne |Isabella Cueto |Chelsea Cirruzzo

The new agency at the center of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda is hitting its first hurdle: Congress. The administration’s sweeping reorganization plan for the Department of Health and Human Services would shrink the National Institutes of Health and slash a litany of disease prevention programs while making the Administration for a Healthy America a new crown jewel of the agency, focused on chronic disease.