Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Very Brief Blog: Biden Releases FY2023 HHS Budget

In late March 2022, the White House and HHS released the "Budget in Brief" for FY2023.   The President's March proposal may have a variable impact on the actual FY2023 budget, which comes from the Hill this fall.



See the HHS Budget in Brief webpage, with many PDF files, here:

https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2023/index.html

See the 74-page formal HHS budget here (CMS p 27 ff):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hhs_fy2023.pdf

See the more conversational, 174-page "budget in brief," here.  CMS 74ff, CMMI p. 110ff ($756M).

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2023-budget-in-brief.pdf

Note ARHQ interest in digital health (70-71) and CMS interest in digital technology & payments (81).  FDA also wants to develop, evaluate, and advance digital health devices to address opioid disorders (23).


CMS

See the CMS congressional  proposal and justification separately here, a hefty 323 page PDF:

https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/PerformanceBudget

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/fy2023-cms-congressional-justification-estimates-appropriations-committees.pdf

(323 pp)


Additional Materials

See a two hour presentation featuring Secretary Becerra here:

https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fy-2023-budget-request-for-the-department-of-health-and-human-services

And prepared speech here, 11pp.  Several pages by Becerra on behavioral health (7-9):

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP07/20220331/114559/HHRG-117-AP07-Wstate-BecerraX-20220331.pdf

With Jason Smith's (R) opening statement here ("everywhere in this budget...failed policies"):

https://republicans-budget.house.gov/press-release/smith-opening-statement-president-bidens-hhs-fy23-budget/

See a nice summary of HHS budget highlights reviewed by AAMC here:

https://www.aamc.org/advocacy-policy/washington-highlights/president-proposes-fy-23-increases-health-programs-arpa-h