Below please find highlights from the Biden Administration's recent announcements on improving behavioral health systems across the nation. CMS Releases Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH) Model Notice of Funding Opportunity Today, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI/Innovation Center) released a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Innovation in Behavioral Health Model (IHPP Summary). Other materials with information... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, June 17, 2024
The House is on recess this week, while the Senate will come back into session this afternoon before taking a break on Wednesday for the Juneteenth federal holiday. They will come back into session on Thursday and Friday. The Senate floor schedule this week is mostly focused on nominations. On the Committee level Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR)... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, June 10, 2024
The House and Senate are both in session this week starting tomorrow. The House is scheduled to take up a handful of bills on suspension tomorrow before potentially bringing up two bills later in week: the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act and a resolution could come up recommending that the House of Representatives find United States Attorney General Merrick... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, June 3, 2024
The House and Senate are both back in session this week, though just for a few days before many members join President Biden and foreign leaders in Normandy, France for a D-Day 80th Anniversary celebration. On Monday the House is scheduled to vote on multiple bills naming post offices before possibly taking up the first appropriations bill of the year,... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, May 28, 2024
The House and Senate are both in recess this week setting up a quiet holiday week on Capitol Hill. The break comes after a week full of healthcare and nutrition related hearings and markups last week, including House Agriculture Committee passage of a largely partisan Farm bill; the Senate HELP Committee passage of 7 bipartisan bills to reauthorize emergency services... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, May 20, 2024
The Senate is in session today and the House returns tomorrow for a few days of legislative business before recessing for the Memorial Day Holiday. The Senate is expected to take up the bipartisan immigration bill from earlier in the year for another vote this week. The bill is not expected to pass and is generally considered to be a... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, May 13, 2024
The House and Senate are both scheduled to return tomorrow. When the House gavels into session there are several bills scheduled a number of bills to be voted on under suspension, including H.R. 4581 , the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2023 and H.R. 6960, the Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2024. This week the... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, May 6, 2024
The House is in session today and the Senate will return tomorrow. The House has scheduled a number of bills to be voted on under suspension, however the main event this week in the House is the expectation that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will trigger her motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). The timing isn’t certain, but... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, April 29, 2024
The House returns from a week of recess today and is scheduled to vote on over a dozen bills on suspension, most of which relate to technology and veterans affairs. Still outstanding, with the ability to derail the House agenda, is the motion to vacate that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed prior to the recess. Whether or not she... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, April 22, 2024
Happy Earth Day! The House is in recess this week after a Saturday session where they passed four separate bills that together make up a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as new sanctions against Russia, China and Iran, a TikTok ban, and U.S. power to freeze Russian assets. While three of the bills... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, April 15
Both the House and Senate are in Congress this week as the House will focus will be on demonstrating support for Israel following this weekend’s Iranian led attack and the Senate will deal with the articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas. The House will take up 12 bills under suspension of the rules (requiring a two... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, April 8, 2024
The Senate returns from a two-week spring recess today and the House will return tomorrow. The big agenda item this week will occur on Wednesday when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivers the House passed articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas to the Senate. On Thursday all Senators will be sworn in as jurors and Senate... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, April 1, 2024
The House and Senate are on spring recess again this week. After finally passing the fiscal year 2024 bills prior to leaving town, action on an emergency spending package will await Congress upon their return. In addition to funding for war and humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan, approximately $1 billion in emergency funding is needed to address... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, March 25, 2024
The House and the Senate are both on a two-week spring recess after finally passing the last of the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills over the weekend. Six months into the fiscal year, Congress passed a minibus package of six appropriations bills, including the Labor-HHS bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services. President Biden signed the... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, March 18, 2024
Happy Anniversary to the Affordable Care Act which was signed into law 14 years ago this week! The House and Senate are both in session this week as we once again countdown towards the expiration of the Continuing Resolution (CR) that is currently funding the last six fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bills, including the bill that funds the Department... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, March 11, 2024
The House and Senate are both in session today as the President releases his Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget request. The budget request kicks off the start of the FY 2025 budget process, just days after six of the 12 FY 2024 appropriations bills were finally enacted. Included with the first six appropriations bills that was enacted was a long... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, March 4, 2024
This week promises to be a busy one in Washington! Almost halfway into the fiscal year (FY), this week the House and Senate are poised to finally pass six of the 12 FY 2024 appropriations bills as well as a long-awaited healthcare package. Text was released on the Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-VA, Transportation-HUD, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Interior spending bills at... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, February 26, 2024
The House and Senate return to Washington this week with just days to avert a March 1 shutdown for agencies funded under the Agriculture, Energy and Water, MilCon-VA and Transportation-HUD spending bills. The Senate comes back into session this afternoon, while the House will come back on Wednesday afternoon. The remainder of the federal government has until March 8 before... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, February 20, 2024
The House and Senate are both out this week for President’s Day recess. Almost two months into 2024, the focus in Washington has largely been on finishing priorities from last year including the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations, creating a passable foreign aid package, and negotiating a health care package, rather than starting fresh with new initiatives. This week we... Read More
Impact Health - Weekly, February 12, 2024
The Senate was supposed to be on recess this week, however, they have been in session all weekend debating a foreign aid package. After Senate Republicans blocked the bipartisan package that included immigration reforms last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proceeded with a $95 billion foreign aid-only bill that includes $60 billion to support Ukraine in its fight against... Read More
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