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4 Mar 2015, 10:43 am by Lyle Denniston
  Both President Obama and his top health policy aide, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 9:04 pm by Lyle Denniston
Burwell will feature two high-profile lawyers, Michael A. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 3:13 am by Amy Howe
  This blog’s Lyle Denniston reports on a letter by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, responding to a question from a member of Congress, in which she indicates that the federal government “would have no way to fix ‘the massive damage’” if the Court were to strike down the subsidies. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 2:33 pm by Lyle Denniston
Answering a question from a member of Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 4:29 pm by HL Chronicle of Data Protection
During a keynote address delivered on Tuesday morning, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced a two-year, $28 million grant program that will aim to increase the adoption and use of interoperable health IT tools and services to support the exchange of health information. [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
” We know that Sylvia Burwell, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in response to a request from Senators Ted Cruz and Michael Lee, said that the Treasury would make no payments from a Treasury account created for making section 1402 payments to insurers. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 5:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Achieving such an interoperable system is an essential element towards HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell’s vision of better care through smarter spending, leading to healthier people. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 3:13 am by Jon Gelman
Meanwhile, despite disagreements over the health law, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell lists possible areas of cooperation with the GOP, such as on opioid abuse, Ebola and medical research and innovation. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 10:02 pm by News Desk
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday to Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Burwell, co-chairs of the newly formed Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, to ask how this task force will address gaps in how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently addressing the public health threat posed by the overuse of antibiotics in food animals. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 1:46 pm by Tom Webley
Sylvia Matthews Burwell, Secretary of HHS, testified that funds would help efforts to increase preparedness to Ebola in the United States by “improving readiness in hospitals, laboratories, and communities across the country. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 3:52 am by ligitsec
The HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell has encouraged other countries to follow suit and to offer similar liability protections. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 10:00 am
From the horse's, er, mouth:"Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell warns, “we will have things that won’t go right. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 8:56 am by Jon Gelman
(details)This story was updated at 5:40 p.m.The number of health insurance companies offering plans in the marketplaces this fall will increase by 25 percent, giving consumers more choices for coverage, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Tuesday.HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell (Photo via C-SPAN).When the marketplace enrollment reopens in November, 77 new insurers will be offering coverage in the 44 states for which HHS had data, which… [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:09 pm by Lydia Zuraw
In their letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, DeLauro and Farr asked that the Food and Drug Administration “discontinue [the] request for FSMA user fees as they hide the true cost of implementation and will likely be rejected again. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 3:06 pm
 Or both.More than 300 patient advocacy groups recently wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to complain about some insurer tactics that "are highly discriminatory against patients with chronic health conditions and may ... violate the (law's) nondiscrimination provisions. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 7:34 am
" To which I would reply: You wish it was that far out:"More than 300 patient advocacy groups recently wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to complain about some insurer tactics that "are highly discriminatory against patients with chronic health conditions"And what's their beef? [read post]