Eshoo, a key player in health care policy, will not seek reelection politico.com/live-updates/2…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to make her state the first in the nation to require hospitals to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards — and plans $500 million to back her plan.
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Vacation planning scoop: Senate schedule for 2024

NEW: FDA chief of staff Julie Tierney will shift to a new agency job in December as the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research's deputy center director for strategy, policy and legislation.

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After a shortage, the CDC says it's shipping out more doses for the RSV shot for babies. How did we get here and is it enough? Read more reporting in Pulse: politico.com/politicopulse/

SCOOP: FDA's Janet Woodcock plans to retire in early 2024, per two FDA staff members.

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NEW: Another House Republican spending bill hit the skids Wednesday, as the chamber punted legislation to fund the departments of Labor, Health and Education until after the Thanksgiving break in the face of opposition from within the GOP.

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New from me: Connecticut's state health plan was on track to spend $30 million this year on popular weight-loss drugs.

Instead of scrapping coverage like some other large employers have, Comptroller Sean Scanlon decided to take a different approach. politico.com/news/2023/11/1…

The Labor-HHS spending bill will not get a House vote until after Thanksgiving

A group of doctors were set to force a debate and vote on the AMA’s opposition to a single-payer health system.

But fears of GOP backlash — and how that could hit Medicare payment to docs — changed their minds.

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House overwhelmingly passes the continuing resolution by 336-95 vote. Bill includes delay to DSH cuts and some funding extenders but doesn't include doc pay relief or alternative pay model bonus extension.

Meanwhile, across the Capitol: 'An argument at a Senate HELP Committee hearing looked for a moment like it would devolve into a physical fight, after Sen. Markwayne Mullin physically stood up from his chair to face Teamsters President Sean O’Brien.' politico.com/live-updates/2…

Vibes at the Rules committee:

“An hour and a half of my life that I’ll never get back” — member on hot mic

New: Doctors’ groups are publicly asking Congress to stop planned Medicare pay cuts entirely.

But many of their lobbyists don’t think it’s actually possible.

Some are now eyeing a plan to make the cuts 2.15% instead of 3.4%.

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In today's Pulse: politico.com/newsletters/po…

— Scoop: Wastewater surveillance at a quarter of the nation's sites is set to resume
— 'Food is medicine' is having a moment
— An interview with Rep. Blumenauer, who recently announced he's not seeking reelection, on what's next

NEW: CDC is sounding the alarm about congenital syphilis (when the infection is passed from parent to infant during birth) increasing tenfold over the last decade.

“We need to do things differently because obviously what we're doing now is not working.”
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My latest story is on the ppl in government taking loneliness seriously. Treating it like a health problem. Proposing legislation. Trying to help people connect. Some are lonely. Others are worried about the rest of us

If you've ever been lonely, read on
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Physician Fee Schedule final rule is out today along with the 340B payment remedy rule. Here is the fee sked: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-24184.pdf and remedy rule: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-24407.pdf