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Trump's 2019 budget blueprint: 15 healthcare takeaways
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 13:54
- President Trump's budget requests $68.4 billion in discretionary spending for HHS, which is a 21 percent decrease from 2017 funding levels
- The budget accounts for $675 billion in net mandatory savings to repeal and replace the ACA
- Funding to combat the opioid epidemic is a major focus of the budget
- A second major aim of the budget is to address high drug prices through Medicare Part D and B reforms and a Medicaid demonstration
- The budget expands Medicaid coverage related to opioid addiction treatment and proposes a Medicare bundled payment for medication-assisted treatment, as well as reimbursement for such treatment
- The budget calls for $70.7 billion for the Veterans Health Administration, up 9.6 percent from 2017 levels
- The budget would extend Medicare solvency by eight more years and increase flexibility in the Medicaid program
- Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control would receive discretionary funds of $770 million, up $45 million from 2017 levels.
- The budget cuts $451 million in health professional training and consolidates graduate medical education spending into a capped grant program
- The budget would eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- The addendum includes $9.2 billion more in funds for NIH
- The budget cuts spending for the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT by 36 percent
- Federal public health officials could face job cuts
- The budget includes a proposal to shift CDC funds for emergency preparedness and health security to HHS
- Infectious disease programs would receive a boost of $40 million through the CDC
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review
Source URL: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/trump-s-2019-b...
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