The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the ...

He ordered the agency to cut the backlog by 30 percent by the end of 2017; 60 percent by the end of 2018; 90 percent by the end of 2019; and to completely eliminate the backlog by Dec. 31, 2020.

Numerous service and staffing cuts at IHS facilities nationally have been caused by a new HHS contract review process, ...

A federal judge on Nov. 1 said HHS must clear its backlog of more than 400,000 Medicare reimbursement appeals from hospitals by the end of fiscal year 2022.

“The backlog was costing the hospital field billions of dollars in unpaid claims,” AHA said. HHS issued a report that as of March 31, there were only 663 appeals initiated but not finished ...

The American Rescue Plan funding will go to block grant programs, with $1.5 billion each allocated to the Community Mental Health Services block grant program and Substance Abuse Prevention and Tre… ...

Cuts to the HHS staff and budget will have far-reaching effects on state and local health departments, and some repercussions have already begun, according to public health leaders and advocates ...

In particular, documents show EcoHealth did not submit its 2019 annual report to federal officials for nearly two years; Daszak told the panel that the group had issues logging into the National ...

Title X helps fund services including cancer screenings, birth control, and sexually transmitted disease care. The grant cannot be used to fund abortion procedures. “Disruptions in funding cause ...