Sigi Ris

6 days ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Sigi Ris

The White House is planning on highly controversial indirect funding cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant recipients going into effect despite a district court order that the funding be restored, according to a draft White House budget document Inside Health Policy obtained earlier this week. The document comes as organizations representing research and universities have formed a coalition to develop a new model for funding indirect costs on federal research grants.

2 weeks ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Sigi Ris

The medical device lobby is applauding President Donald Trump’s decision to pause the administration’s reciprocal tariffs, after multiple lobby groups and Democratic lawmakers had raised alarms the now-stalled tariffs would cripple the medical supply chain. But large tariffs remain on China.

2 weeks ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Dorothy Mills-Gregg |Sigi Ris

HHS staff will privately brief the House Energy & Commerce Committee Friday (April 11) at 4 p.m. on the department’s reorganization and reduction in force plan, a committee staffer confirmed to Inside Health Policy shortly after ranking Democrat Frank Pallone (NJ) reminded the chair about the Democrats’ request to hear directly from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about cutting employees and the measles outbreak in Texas, which has now led to two deaths. The Senate health committee has yet...

2 weeks ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Sigi Ris

Members of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s staff have agreed to a private bipartisan briefing with the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which seeks more details on Kennedy’s plan to restructure the department, a source tells Inside Health Policy.

3 weeks ago | insidehealthpolicy.com | Sigi Ris

Former Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya say FTC’s stay this week in its litigation against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers and their affiliated group purchasing organizations is a consequence of their firings. The two remaining GOP commissioners had recused themselves from the case.