The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to approve a fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill that provides $71 billion in discretionary funding for HHS programs, according to an AHA News Now report.
That’s a $1.4 billion increase from last year's HHS budget.
Specifically, the bill provides:
- $30.7 billion for the National Institutes of Health
- $3.2 billion for CMS (nearly $500 million more than FY 2012)
- $1.57 billion for community health centers
- $265 million for Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education
The bill now moves to the Senate floor.
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