Report to Congress

This report responds to a request from the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. It examines the rapid proliferation of telehealth modalities when providing medical care and highlights HHS’s efforts to identify and address obstacles to e-health and telemedicine.

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators of welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared by ASPE’s Office of Human Services Policy.

One provision of the Public Health Service Act (Section 2705(m)(1)), as amended by the Affordable Care Act, directs that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor, gather relevant information from employers who provide

 

A report to Congress on a study of the large group market for health insurance required by section 1254 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

This interim report is in response to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111-5).

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence.  The 2008 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the eleventh annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2005, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Respons