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On May 16, 2023, the House Ways and Means Committee held a legislative hearing to discuss transparency and rising costs in health care. This hearing is part of a series the committee is doing to look at what is driving high costs in healthcare.
On April 26, 2023, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held an oversight hearing on the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and health care workforce shortage. Members queried Administrator Carol Johnson of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) around the PRF and how the President’s FY 2024 Budget would impact the health care workforce shortage.
On April 26, 2023, the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a legislative hearing to discuss several bills and legislative proposals aimed at increasing transparency and lowering costs in health care. The hearing was mostly bipartisan in tone and it is likely that these bills will be passed out of committee shortly.
On April 26, 2023, the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Tax-
Exempt Hospitals and the Community Benefit Standard.” Members agreed that more must be done to better understand the use of tax-exempt status by hospitals, the role of hospitals in providing charity care for their patients, and how the IRS may need to increase and improve oversight of those hospitals for the benefit of communities and American taxpayers.
