Regulatory Issues


Trump Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push

By Stephanie Armour – But even as he extols MAHA, Trump has unleashed a slew of policies likely to make Americans less healthy. He’s slashing 20,000 full time positions from HHS and cutting more than $4 billion in indirect costs related to health research grants, including studies into treatment for Alzheimer’s and cancer.



2025 QPP Exception Applications are Now Available

The 2025 Quality Payment Program Exception applications are available now through December 31, 2025, at 8 p.m. ET. There are 2 types of exception applications that allow users to indicate the reason they’re unable to report data for one or more Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance categories.



100 Days of Health Policy Upheaval

From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters.



Restructuring HHS

HHS announced reorganization plans that will combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of their divisions.