A Senate Appropriations subcommittee approved a bill that provides $164.3 billion of discretionary funding for fiscal year 2014 for the departments of Labor, HHS and Education.
Notable appropriations included an $80 billon award to HHS, a $30.96 billion award to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research, a $5.2 billion award to CMS for program management and $640 million set aside for healthcare fraud and abuse control, nearly double the funding set aside for this purpose during the fiscal year 2013.
The full committee markup for the bill is scheduled for Thursday, after which bill details will be available.
For a summary of the bill, click here.