Robert Kennedy Jr., testifying in January at a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing. Credit: Senate Finance
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services may end up making only modest staffing cuts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS arm that helps to oversee federal laws, regulations and programs that affect commercial health coverage.
HHS started the year with the equivalent of 82,000 full-time positions. It's already on track to eliminate 10,000 positions, and it plans to increase the total number of positions eliminated to 20,000, HHS officials announced today.
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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.
