House Will Take Up Eshoo’s Revised ARPA-H Bill The Week Of June 20

The House the week of June 20 will consider legislation that aims to establish the Biden administration’s biomedical research agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), as an independent agency within HHS, require the agency to coordinate with FDA and CMS on product approvals and coverage decisions, and authorize $5 million in appropriations funding for the new agency. The bill will be considered under an expedited procedure, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said in a Friday (June...