The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a rule cleared by the Office of Management and Budget Friday (April 18) that will cement the creation of a new category of federal workers designed to identify members of the workforce the administration is likely to fire as it continues to sweep house of government jobs and offices it views as unnecessary or in opposition to its policymaking goals.
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SCOTUS Appears Poised To Back USPSTF’s Role In Free Preventative Services
Most of the Supreme Court justice appeared sympathetic to the Justice Department’s oral arguments Monday (April 21) backing the United States Preventive Services Task Force’s role in determining which services must be covered cost-free by most insurers because HHS has oversight over its members and recommendations.
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Makary Pitches Rare Disease Approvals Based On ‘Plausible Mechanism’
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is pitching a new “customized” approval pathway for rare disease drugs that would allow faster access based on a “plausible mechanism” for the drug’s effect, on a conditional basis, without requiring randomized control trials (RCTs).
Kennedy & Makary To Announce Ban On Synthetic Food Dyes
FDA Guidances Advance To OMB Amid Plans To Deregulate
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) unanimously voted April 10 to recommend that Congress direct HHS to improve the accuracy of Medicare’s relative value units (RVUs) by collecting up-to-date cost data, a move that a commissioner suggested should go hand-in-hand with an idea floated by key lawmakers and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to establish an independent panel of experts to help CMS better vet recommendations from the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC).
House Education & the Workforce Committee ranking Democrat Robert Scott (VA) is demanding HHS immediately reinstate the team statutorily charged with calculating the federal poverty level, which is used to determine eligibility for a variety of health, nutrition and housing programs and that advocates say cannot be treated as a stagnant number.