Budgeting

AHA shares concerns about the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Health and Human Services’ (HHS) budget proposals that would unfairly penalize hospitals and not improve cybersecurity of the entire health care sector.
President Biden March 24 signed legislation funding the rest of the federal government through Sept. 30, including Department of Health and Human Services programs.
President Biden March 11 submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year 2025.
President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
U.S. spending on health care grew just 2.7% in 2021 as federal expenditures for health care declined after spiking in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported today in Health Affairs.
President Biden today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year 2023.
The Senate approved on a party line vote  a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, which included reconciliation instructions which will provide the majority party with the means to pass a comprehensive reconciliation package with just 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the usual 60-vote hurdle.
The Senate today will begin debate on a concurrent budget resolution giving Congress fast-track procedures to pass a second “human” infrastructure package of up to $3.5 trillion with a simple majority vote in the Senate.
President Biden today submitted to Congress his discretionary budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The budget request, which is not binding, proposes $1.5 trillion for appropriated spending in FY 2022, including $769 billion for domestic programs, a 16% increase over last year’s level. The…