Sen. Mike Johanns says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is violating a transparency amendment he got into last year's appropriations package.
Johanns, R-Neb., talked about the provision today during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the fiscal year 2015 HHS budget request. Fiscal 2015 will start Oct. 1.
Outgoing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was not at the hearing. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the HHS secretary nominee, also skipped the meeting. And Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the HHS agency in charge of implementing Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health insurance market provisions, was unable to attend the hearing because her mother died Tuesday evening.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
