Skilled Nursing News March 21, 2024
Congressional leaders released on Thursday bipartisan fiscal appropriations bills for 2024 totaling $1.2 trillion in funding, including for health care.
Ahead of it, two House panels grilled the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday during hearings on White House’s fiscal 2025 budget proposal for the department.
Becerra addressed lawmaker’s questions related to the HHS’ fiscal 2025 discretionary spending request, which stands at $130.7 billion, at his hearings before the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee and the Ways and Means Committee.
The department’s budget request includes provisions to strengthen nursing home oversight, transparency, and enforcement of penalties, validation of Care Compare date.
The HHS FY 2025 budget request also includes investments of $492 million to improve oversight...
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