Advocacy

For decades, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded research that helps make health care safer, more effective, and more affordable. Now, after a year of staffing cuts, funding delays, and unprecedented disruption, the agency’s ability to carry out that mission is rapidly unraveling.

Today, AcademyHealth submitted formal comments calling for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed OMB rule that would fundamentally change how the federal government awards and manages grants.

In an unprecedented move raising urgent concerns about the future of preventive care in the United States, the leadership of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has been removed, threatening the independent, evidence-based process that ensures millions of Americans can access life-saving screenings and services at no cost.

This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on congressional appropriations, the USPSTF possibly thawing, vaccine studies being pulled from CDC, and more.

Despite having a $345 million budget, the nation’s only agency dedicated to improving how health care actually works has effectively stopped functioning. In new testimony to Congress, AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll warns that the crisis at AHRQ is already shutting down research, stalling patient safety improvements, and putting future progress at risk.

This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the USPSTF’s meetings being blocked, leadership vacancies at HHS, movement on insulin price caps, and more.

This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on leadership shakeups at HHS, court action on the PHIG, upcoming nomination hearing for the Surgeon General, and more.