Latest U.S. Department of Health & Human Services News Releases

HHS News Releases Week of October 24, 2021

ICYMI – HHS Invests over $560 million to Bolster Product Manufacturing to Increase Supply, Availability of COVID-19 Tests

October 22, 2021

As the Administration works to vaccinate the population, in the past several weeks the Biden Administration, through HHS, has invested more than half a billion dollars from the American Rescue Plan to boost manufacturing of key products needed to increase domestic testing supply.  Read full news release

CMS Launches Webpage to Share Innovative State Actions to Expand Medicaid Home and Community-based Services

October 21, 2021

Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new "one-stop shop" for state Medicaid agencies and stakeholders on Medicaid.gov to advance transparency and innovation for home and community-based services.  Read full news release

Statements by Officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commemorating the First Openly Transgender Four-Star Officer and First Female Four-Star Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps on October 19, 2021

October 19, 2021

HHS publicly announced today the nation’s first openly transgender four-star officer across any of the eight uniformed services of the United States.  Read full news release