Department of Health and Human Services
HHS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS administers federal health and human-service programs, including Medicare and Medicaid (through CMS), public-health work (CDC, FDA, NIH), and human-services grants.
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953; 42 U.S.C. (Public Health Service / SSA titles)Statute · Official site
Related cabinet principal: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. · Secretary of Health and Human Services
Agency pages always show both columns: assisting, and complicating / harming. Language is tied to documented outcomes or standing public functions with a source. If a side has no structured public items yet, that column says so. Never a page that only dunks or only praises.
Assisting
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
Medicaid and CHIP (federal share)
HHS/CMS administers the federal share of Medicaid and CHIP with the states. This is a benefits program. We do not invent a beneficiary count.
Standing function · From the record
Medicare benefits administered through CMS
CMS, an HHS operating division, administers Medicare. Enrollment and payment totals stay blank until an open-data row is ingested. The program itself is the standing assistance function.
Complicating / harming
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
HHS-OIG exclusions and program-integrity actions
The HHS Inspector General publishes the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities. An exclusion bars billing federal health programs and can end a provider’s practice. That is a documented complicating outcome. Named exclusions stay blank until a machine-readable LEIE row is ingested.
Standing function · From the record
OCR HIPAA and civil-rights enforcement
HHS Office for Civil Rights investigates HIPAA and certain civil-rights complaints and can impose corrective action or civil money penalties. Those actions can complicate a covered entity’s operations. Case-level penalties stay blank until a sourced resolution is ingested.
Watchdogs — indexes, not invented findings
Inspector General and GAO homepages. A homepage is not a finding. Specific IG or GAO rows appear on the ledger only when a sourced item is ingested.
Notable public actions
Federal Register documents attributed to this agency. Timeline only — not scored, not shoved onto a ledger side without a classification source.
rule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18226
Medicare Program; Town Hall Meeting on the Fiscal Year 2028 Applications for New Technology Add-On PaymentsThis notice announces a town hall meeting in accordance with section 1886(d)(5)(K)(viii)(III) of the Social Security Act (the Act) to discuss fiscal year (FY) 2028 applications for add-on payments for new medical services and technologies under the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Interested parties are invited to this virtual meeting to present their comments, recommendations, and data regarding whether the FY 2028 applications for new technology add- on payments meet the substantial clinical improvement criterion.
rule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18217
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and RecommendationsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Possession, Use, and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins (42 CFR 73). This data collection allows CDC and APHIS have to collect information on the possession, use, and transfer of select agents and toxins.
rule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18215
Center for Scientific Review; Amended Notice of Meetingrule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18193
Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetingsrule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18191
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below.
rule · Sep 8, 2026 · FR 2026-18235
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Bureau of Health Workforce Performance Data Collection, OMB No. 0906-0086-RevisionIn compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
rule · Sep 4, 2026 · FR 2026-18133
Advancing Development of Botanical Drug Products; Request for InformationThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is opening a public docket to solicit comments on FDA's efforts to advance development of botanical drug products (BDPs). FDA is publishing this request for information to better understand stakeholders' perspectives on the state of BDP development in the United States, challenges encountered, and potential solutions to gathering the information required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).
rule · Sep 4, 2026 · FR 2026-18120
Performance Review Board MembersThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is publishing the names of the Performance Review Board Members (PRB) who are reviewing performance of Senior Executive Service members, Title 42 executives, Senior Level, and Scientific Professional employees for Fiscal Year 2026.
rule · Sep 4, 2026 · FR 2026-18115
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: Rural Communities Opioid Response Program Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-XXXX-NewIn compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the public during the review and approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day comment period for this notice has closed.
rule · Sep 4, 2026 · FR 2026-18167
Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for the Repatriation of Mentally Ill NationalsThe Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families proposes to remove the Care and Treatment of Mentally Ill Nationals of the United States, Returned from Foreign Countries regulations to streamline regulations and to renumber it under a different Part.