The Biden administration will begin the first of its regular science-led, public health briefings this Wednesday (Jan. 27), White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced Monday (Jan. 25).

Illinois Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood on Tuesday (Jan. 19) reintroduced legislation to expand and enhance the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits, just days after President Joe Biden included that as a key piece of his health reform agenda wrapped into the COVID-19 recovery plan unveiled Jan. 16.

AARP has sued CMS over the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to stop imposing per-day fines on nursing homes that don’t meet certain CMS health and safety requirements.

The COVID-19 public health emergency is expected to continue through the end of 2021, Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran wrote in a Jan. 22 letter to governors, signaling the temporary 6.2% bump in federal Medicaid matching funds and a slew of other Medicare and Medicaid emergency waivers put in place during the pandemic will not end soon.

Experts say President Joe Biden could stop Medicaid programs from hemorrhaging beneficiaries once the public health emergency ends by reworking some regulations and rewriting a Trump administration guidance on how to restart the redetermination process -- otherwise some experts predict up to 30% of Medicaid beneficiaries could lose insurance.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday (Jan. 21) to set up a national public health job corps aimed at COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and vaccine outreach.

The White House Office of Management and Budget pulled six FDA guidances and rules from its review, a move prompted by President Joe Biden’s freeze on all regulations issued by the Trump administration that have not yet gone into effect.

One of President Joe Biden’s executive orders out Thursday steps into the still smoldering issue over coverage of non-diagnostic COVID-19 testing, demanding that HHS clarify insurers’ responsibilities.