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What Trump's first day orders mean for healthcare: Ditched drug models, pauses on rules and hiring
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By Fierce Healthcare Staff, Dave Muoio, Noah Tong, Emma Beavins, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya
Jan 21, 2025 1:00pm
Donald Trump
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
World Health Organization
All links
Alongside revoking 78 Biden executive orders, a busy first day for the Trump administration produced a government hiring freeze, withdrawals from global organizations, personnel changes and more. (lucky-photographer/GettyImages)
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promises to kick off his second term in office with a tidal wave of executive orders.
Either in front of cheering supporters at a Monday evening rally or later that night in the Oval Office, Trump signed dozens of executive orders and outlined other presidential actions spanning large swaths of the federal government. This included an executive order revoking 78 executive actions .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/ .. taken by the Biden administration, plus other steps to review rulemaking and other actions taken during the waning days of Joe Biden’s presidency.
Additional orders signed by Trump outline ideological changes to how executive agencies will craft regulations and view artificial intelligence or reassess the U.S.’ role in global agreements. Other changes weren’t explicitly laid out in the president’s orders but are reflected in materials no longer available on government websites.
Here’s a breakdown of the changes affecting healthcare agencies, the industry and public health. (Editor’s note: this story is being updated.)
Regulatory freeze slows HHS
The Trump administration has ordered a government wide regulatory freeze that will halt progress on healthcare regulations.
The freeze stops the rule making process in its tracks and prevents the new Trump administration from issuing new rules for 60 days.
[Insert: Two months. Trust nothing breaks worse, like bird flu ..
To link -- Bird flu in America made Australian news again yesterday -- How scared should we be of bird flu?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175688694 .. in the 60 days]
In that time, the new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership will decide which Biden-era regulations it wants to toss, which it will let stand and which it wants to change.
The first Trump administration and the Biden administration instated regulatory freezes on the first days of their terms in 2017 and 2021, respectively.
“The administration gets in and understands the regulatory landscape of where things are and can put out their own kind of stamp on regulatory policies,” Jeff Davis, director of health policy at McDermott+, said.
Trump’s HHS will review regulations that were proposed, but not finalized, by the Biden administration, such as the proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule .. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/hhs-proposes-cybersecurity-updates-healthcare-organizations .. and the proposed rule for prescribing controlled substances via telehealth .. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/dea-proposes-registry-system-telehealth-rx-heightened-scrutiny-telehealth-platforms . Rules that were finalized by Biden but are not yet effective are also stalled for 60 days.
The freeze will give the Trump administration time to determine its regulatory priorities and how they differ from Biden’s. Also, the 60-day freeze gives the administration time to get through the confirmation process for agency officials.
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https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/waning-days-biden-withdraws-another-proposed-contraception-rule
Of note, Trump’s nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has not yet been scheduled to appear in front of the Senate. The Washington Post reported that the scheduling of the confirmation hearing has been delayed because the Senate is still rifling through RFK Jr.’s financial disclosures. Dorothy Fink, M.D., has been appointed to serve as acting HHS secretary in the meantime.
Davis said it’s likely that the Trump team will throw out Biden’s proposed staffing mandate for skilled nursing facilities and the proposed updates to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug programs.
In the last weeks of Biden’s term, his administration proposed several rules, even though the administration knew they could not be finalized and would likely be subject to a regulatory freeze.
“They're not starting from scratch, so to speak,” Davis said. “They have to kind of deal with some of the proposed rules … and put their own spin on them or rescind them. But they have to deal with them in some capacity.”
The Trump administration has several other tools at its disposal to void Biden-era healthcare regulations. The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to more easily invalidate regulations finalized after May 22, 2024. The new administration could also promulgate new rulemaking that replaces a Biden regulation and prevents the agency from proposing a similar rule.
The new administration could also choose to not enforce Biden-era rules or could challenge rules in court. One of the many Biden executive orders that Trump rescinded on day one was his 2023 order to modernize the regulatory review process.
Drug pricing models pulled
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/what-trumps-first-day-orders-mean-healthcare-ditched-drug-models-pauses-rules-and-hiring
Continued in reply...
Trump, liar. Fake law and order pisspresident. Trump pardons almost
all involved in Jan. 6 riot, commutes remaining 14 sentences
By Fierce Healthcare Staff, Dave Muoio, Noah Tong, Emma Beavins, Anastassia Gliadkovskaya
Jan 21, 2025 1:00pm
Donald Trump
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
World Health Organization
All links
Alongside revoking 78 Biden executive orders, a busy first day for the Trump administration produced a government hiring freeze, withdrawals from global organizations, personnel changes and more. (lucky-photographer/GettyImages)
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promises to kick off his second term in office with a tidal wave of executive orders.
Either in front of cheering supporters at a Monday evening rally or later that night in the Oval Office, Trump signed dozens of executive orders and outlined other presidential actions spanning large swaths of the federal government. This included an executive order revoking 78 executive actions .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/ .. taken by the Biden administration, plus other steps to review rulemaking and other actions taken during the waning days of Joe Biden’s presidency.
Additional orders signed by Trump outline ideological changes to how executive agencies will craft regulations and view artificial intelligence or reassess the U.S.’ role in global agreements. Other changes weren’t explicitly laid out in the president’s orders but are reflected in materials no longer available on government websites.
Here’s a breakdown of the changes affecting healthcare agencies, the industry and public health. (Editor’s note: this story is being updated.)
Regulatory freeze slows HHS
The Trump administration has ordered a government wide regulatory freeze that will halt progress on healthcare regulations.
The freeze stops the rule making process in its tracks and prevents the new Trump administration from issuing new rules for 60 days.
[Insert: Two months. Trust nothing breaks worse, like bird flu ..
To link -- Bird flu in America made Australian news again yesterday -- How scared should we be of bird flu?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175688694 .. in the 60 days]
In that time, the new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership will decide which Biden-era regulations it wants to toss, which it will let stand and which it wants to change.
The first Trump administration and the Biden administration instated regulatory freezes on the first days of their terms in 2017 and 2021, respectively.
“The administration gets in and understands the regulatory landscape of where things are and can put out their own kind of stamp on regulatory policies,” Jeff Davis, director of health policy at McDermott+, said.
Trump’s HHS will review regulations that were proposed, but not finalized, by the Biden administration, such as the proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule .. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/hhs-proposes-cybersecurity-updates-healthcare-organizations .. and the proposed rule for prescribing controlled substances via telehealth .. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/dea-proposes-registry-system-telehealth-rx-heightened-scrutiny-telehealth-platforms . Rules that were finalized by Biden but are not yet effective are also stalled for 60 days.
The freeze will give the Trump administration time to determine its regulatory priorities and how they differ from Biden’s. Also, the 60-day freeze gives the administration time to get through the confirmation process for agency officials.
Related
In waning days, Biden withdraws another proposed contraception rule
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/waning-days-biden-withdraws-another-proposed-contraception-rule
Of note, Trump’s nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has not yet been scheduled to appear in front of the Senate. The Washington Post reported that the scheduling of the confirmation hearing has been delayed because the Senate is still rifling through RFK Jr.’s financial disclosures. Dorothy Fink, M.D., has been appointed to serve as acting HHS secretary in the meantime.
Davis said it’s likely that the Trump team will throw out Biden’s proposed staffing mandate for skilled nursing facilities and the proposed updates to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug programs.
In the last weeks of Biden’s term, his administration proposed several rules, even though the administration knew they could not be finalized and would likely be subject to a regulatory freeze.
“They're not starting from scratch, so to speak,” Davis said. “They have to kind of deal with some of the proposed rules … and put their own spin on them or rescind them. But they have to deal with them in some capacity.”
The Trump administration has several other tools at its disposal to void Biden-era healthcare regulations. The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to more easily invalidate regulations finalized after May 22, 2024. The new administration could also promulgate new rulemaking that replaces a Biden regulation and prevents the agency from proposing a similar rule.
The new administration could also choose to not enforce Biden-era rules or could challenge rules in court. One of the many Biden executive orders that Trump rescinded on day one was his 2023 order to modernize the regulatory review process.
Drug pricing models pulled
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/what-trumps-first-day-orders-mean-healthcare-ditched-drug-models-pauses-rules-and-hiring
Continued in reply...
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