Sydney Halleman

2 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Emily Olsen |Sydney Halleman

Listen to the article 3 minThe House passed a budget resolution Thursday that could set the stage for significant cuts to the safety-net insurance program Medicaid. The chamber voted 216 to 214 to approve the budget blueprint, which the Senate advanced over the weekend. Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., voted against the measure.

2 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Emily Olsen |Sydney Halleman

Listen to the article 3 min Potential cuts to Medicaid under consideration by congressional Republicans are broadly unpopular, including with people who voted for President Donald Trump, according to a recent survey by a GOP pollster.

2 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Emily Olsen |Sydney Halleman

Listen to the article 4 minThe Senate has advanced a budget blueprint that calls for significantly lowerspending cuts than its House counterpart, setting the bodies up for a clash in reconciling the two plans as the healthcare sector braces for potential cuts to Medicaid. On Saturday, the Senate voted 51 to 48largely along party lines to send its budget resolution to the House for consideration.

3 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Sydney Halleman

Listen to the article 10 minEmployees who were supposed to receive layoff notices didn't get them. Notices that did go out had the wrong office name, or specified an office that no longer exists. Some employees were told that, if they had discrimination complaints, to reach out to an equal opportunity office director who died last year. The HHS' reduction in force, which agency head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered last week, began on Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Sydney Halleman

Listen to the article 7 minHHS employees began receiving notices Tuesday they are going to be laid off, after days of anxious waiting to learn who will be included in the Trump administration's drastic downsizing of the federal health department. Emails went out early Tuesday morning placing affected workers on immediate administrative leave, according to several HHS sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity.