The Senate health committee chair is considering floating draft language on mandatory funding for the National Institutes of Health prior to an upcoming markup of the upper chamber’s counterpart to the House-passed 21st Century Cures legislation, sources tell Inside Health Policy . While the NIH Innovation Fund measure would not be an actual bill and initially would not include payfors, sources say Chairman Lamar Alexander (TN) has warmed to the idea of mandatory funding for the agency and may release...