Billy Wynne

Agency Announces New Surveillance Tool For Organ Transplantation Out of Sequence The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) launched a new public dashboard to track when organ transplants occur outside of the standard list of matched patients. The organ transplant system matches donor organs with patients based on urgency, distance, and other rules to ensure fairness. Allocation out of sequence…

Secretaries Request Detailed Plans to Include Nutrition in All Levels of Medical Education Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, announced an initiative to encourage medical education organizations to implement comprehensive nutrition education and training. The initiative is part of the…

Institutes Releases New Implementation Guide in Support of Restoring Gold Standard Science Executive Order The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new implementation plan titled “Leading in Gold Standard Science.” This announcement comes out against the backdrop of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow the Trump Administration to continue to withhold NIH…

Agency Revokes California’s Funding for Sex Education Program Citing Refusal to Remove “Gender Ideology” from Curriculum On August 21, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), terminated California’s federal grant for sex education after the state refused to strip references to “gender ideology” from its curriculum (press release). This…

Federal District Judge Blocks Six Major Provisions of Marketplace Rule Ahead of August 25 Implementation On August 22, U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson granted a preliminary injunction in City of Columbus et al v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. et al (D. Md.), temporarily blocking the implementation of six of the eight challenged provisions of the 2025…

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Continue Withholding NIH Grants; Declines a Stay in Lower Court Ruling that DEI Guidance Was Unlawful Yesterday, in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can continue withholding more than $780 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research…

Agency Accepting Nominations for a Healthcare Advisory Committee to Focus on Chronic Disease, Financing, and Delivery The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the establishment of a Healthcare Advisory Committee to provide strategic recommendations directly to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet…

Agency Launches “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off” AI Challenge to Tackle Medicare Fraud; Phase 1 Submissions Due Sept. 19 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition, a research challenge designed to develop explainable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to combat Medicare fraud. The initiative seeks…

Agency Tightens Medicaid and CHIP Oversight as Upcoming HR1 Changes Reshape Eligibility for Immigrants; Begins Rolling Out Monthly Reports Flagging Medicaid Enrollees With Unconfirmed Citizenship or Immigration Status The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new nationwide oversight initiative yesterday aimed at removing ineligible Medicaid and CHIP enrollees by ensuring all enrollees…

Department Issues RFI on State Laws with Out-Of-State Economic Impacts as Trump Administration Rescinds Biden-Era Executive Order on Competition; Comments on the RFI Due Sept. 15 The Department of Justice (DOJ), in partnership with the National Economic Council, launched an initiative to examine state laws that may significantly and negatively affect the national economy or…