here in continuous and frequent contact with our federal partners at dhhs and hhs -- dhs and hhs. thank you. i'm happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you mr. osuna. mr. greenberg is the acting assistant secretary at the department of health and human services. before joining hhs esther greenberg directed the georgetown center university on poverty, inequality, and public policy. mr. greenberg. mr. greenberg: thank you for identifying me to testify today. i will be describing the sense of -- responsibilities of the department of health and human services in relation to unaccompanied children and talk about a set of key developments relating to those responsibilities. when unaccompanied children are referred to us by the department of homeland security, we initially place them in one of the network of shelters, while staff work to determine if they have an appropriate sponsor with whom they can live while they are waiting immigration proceedings. when they arrive at a shelter, a child is provided with a complete medical examination within 48 hours. trained staff at the s

it's my understanding that as of yet, none of those employers have received anything from hhs. can you give me an idea, just a date, of when you expect to give notification to employers? >> mr. carter, i -- this issue is one i'm not specifically familiar with. but my understanding of what you are talking about is it is a treasury issue because what you are talking about is tax information on the individuals in terms of if they have received an aptc. and that's a matter that is -- >> can you get back to me with a date. >> i'm happy to raise with second lou the question you have raised. >> fair enough. photo fix to the employers. you would agree that those employers who have multistate locations it would be better if they got one notification as opposed from every statement that's also i'm very concerned about. i will hope you will look into that as well. you do agree obviously that it is a burden on these employees when they have a tax penalty at the end because they didn't accept employers more affordable plan. so that's what we are trying to get at now, right? >> what we want

accordingly, hhs can transfer child to our custody they will remove the child in cooperation with hhs and the receiving government. we have taken a number of steps to prevent further surge. first the president and secretary said those crossing the border are prior for removal. and ice has procedures for officially obtaining documents allowing officers to continue to perform other responsibilities. secretary johnson have met with high level officials in the following countries to secure their operation in stemming the flow of their citizens into the united states. while the humanitarian influx is a seasonal challenge, early indications are that our efforts are paying off. i am confidant we will not see a repeat of last year's numbers, but we are better prepared to deal with the arrival of unaccompanied children along the southern border. we continue to work closely with sister agencies to address the care and processing of unaccompanied children arriveing in the united states in a unified manner. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you and i welcome your question. >> our fin

for hhs, the budget proposes 88.3 in budget authority. the $4.8 billion increase will allow our departments to deliver impact today and lay a stronger foundation for the nation for tomorrow. it is is a fiscally responsible budget which could save a net estimated $250 billion. the budget is projected to continue slowing the growth in medicare by securing $423 billion in savings as we build a better smarter, healthier delivery system. in terms of providing all americans with access to affordable quality health care, it builds on historic progress and improving coverage for families who already have insurance. the budget supports our efforts to move towards a health delivery system that delivers better care, spends dollars in a smarter way and puts the patients at the center of the care to keep them healthy. the budget also improves access for native americans. to support communities throughout the country, the budget makes critical investment in health centers and our nation's health care workforce. particularly in rural and other high need

she was named the 22nd hhs secretary.hen the supreme court ruled in favor of the affordable health care act last week, she said she cried tears of joy. a proud daughter of west virginia, she was a rhodes scholar. she's often called the policy wonder can. i was done to see last week she celebrated her 50th birthday. a belated happy birthday, and thank you for joining us. sylvia: thank you for the birthday wishes. happy to be here. al: you've seen the reaction since the decision in the court last week. how does it change the landscape, if at all, and what are the major challenges you? sylvia: it gives us an opportunity to build on the progress we have seen in the areas of polity, affordability, and access in the health care space. i think we can turn and build on that and focus on some important things we need to focus on and do together. we need to work on those numbers and we can do that for having a strong open enrollment and doing further medicated tension. al: 40% of subsidy eligible people are now enrolled. is it sust

his is a policy issue -- this is a policy issue, this is not just a quirk, this is an hhs policy. senator bagdoyan: we would view that as a indicator of a control cap. -- cap. mr. portman: you can get in just by no proof. in another example, you noted in all 11 cases, they were supposed to submit all of the information for subsidies, in some cases they only submitted a few pages could you describe that rule and why it enables them to see coverage? senator bagdoyan: in terms of a legal basis, we are awaiting a response from cmf, our attorneys have been in touch with there's we are trying to get clarity. under the good-faith provision essentially the applicant is compliant with their obligation to submit documents as long as they submit one out of the hell ever many they have been asked to submit. mr. portman: again, this is not a result of a statistical quirk it is one as planned. i think anyone who cares about the affordable care act should be concerned. it allows people to continue receiving subsidies without hhs and making a serious attempt to verify eligibility. these are polic

>> i do want to make clear that hhs is not an immigration agency and not responsible for immigration policy. our responsibilities here are principlely about providing the shelter for children and getting them to appropriate sponsors. the work on reasons for why children are coming is really the work that has been done by the state department and homeland security and i would refer to the recent gao report looking at this. certainly the goa report highlights the importance of crime and violence and economic conditions in the home countries. >> let me ask, has there been a dramatic increase in crime or reduction in economic conditions in central america starting near 2012 that would be kind of a trigger for that? be a catalyst for that type of enormous spike? i have the homicide rate for hundred thousand and in most countries they have dropped from el salvadore in 2009 71 2010 64 and 2013 down to 40. i realize central america is not america. you have a huge wage difference and there are other factors. but i am looking at what caused that spike. i would say no body is disputing that is

customs and border protection to custody of hhs. and if ordered the removal of the children following conclusion of immigration proceedings. both functions are critical links in the process. while a company children are not housed or short-term care and custody requires use of agency resources and time and attention of officers. during the time the i.c.e. maintains custody of children for transportation and pending her placement, they are separated from adult detainees. unaccompanied children have snacks, drinks from officials, telephones and other resources. i.c.e. transports children via ground commercial air. all 24 offices have primary back of juvenile coordinators each of whom received annual specialized training with respect to the vulnerabilities of children. field office juvenile coordinators come a duty i personally performed in 1999 service a local subject matter expert on proper processing transportation and placement of unaccompanied children. they monitor practices for compliance with regulations entered in policy and a

. >>> our guest now, one of 11 senators asking attorney general loretta lynch and hhs secretary, silvey i can't burr well that they're selling fee at that time organs. two videos have been released showing planned parenthood senior executives talking about their price per specimen of fetal organs. employees of a federally funded organization violating federal law. joining us now senator james langford a member of the appropriations and homeland security committee. he's introduced legislation to defund planned parenthood while investigating it for illegal practices. senator good to have you with us. let's get to it. a lot of people would be shocked to know that federal money, to the tune of a half a billion dollars is going to planned parenthood. >> it is. half a billion dollars a year. they separate that funding often. it doesn't go towards abortion it goes towards everything else they like to talk about women's health. they don't provide health services they provide screenings. the real people who provide health there are all kinds of other places we can direct that money towards, plan

lou: our guests now, one of 11 senators asking attorney general loretta lynch and hhs secretary sylvia burwell to investigate allegations at planned parenthood is selling fetal organs. two undercover videos have now been released by the center for medical progress showing planned parenthood senior executives talking about price per specimen of fetal organs. employees of a federally funded organization violating federal law. >>> joining us now senator james langford a senator of the intelligence and homeland security committee, he's introduced legislation to defund planned parenthood while investigating it for illegal practices. senator, good to have you with us. let's get right to it. first, i think a lot of people would be shocked to know that federal money to the tune of more than half a million dollars is going to planned parenthood. >> it is, half a billion dollars a year going to planned parenthood and they separate that funding off and it doesn't go towards abortion, it goes to women's health, they don't provide health services, they provide screenings. the things like community

at hhs we've been trying to take steps to make that a reality.nuary we announced historic goals to move 30% of medicare payments to alternative payment models such as accountable care organizations and bundled payment and 50% of those payments by 2018 means paying for value, not paying for volume. we can pay providers rather than how much care they provide people appeared a few weeks ago we also announced a new payment model to encourage better coordination among providers to take part in hip injury replacement for medicare patients. the new model will create one payment with quality measures for an episode of care 90 days from the point at which you have your surgery to the 90 days after you are supposed to be fully recovered from a hip replacement. rather than being incentivized by payments, x-ray blood tests check out there'll have an incentive to focus on quality and total cost of performing a hip replacement and included recovery. since medicare and medicaid cover one out of three americans we know we can have a responsibility to lead where

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some of those issues there, the first on the better and more data is that what we're seeing through hhs is really a lot of data dumping. it's being dumped out there without a lot of context. and so people get confused just by the data cms is releasing. for example, earlier this year was a release of physician claims data. the thought being i would get online and search my provider online and search my provider and see how many claims he was responsible for, the cost of that provider. the media picked up on this, and a lot of it was gotcha journalism. so my provider is the most costly provider because they prescribed the most costly drugs, for example. that's not necessarily helpful to a consumer. i could turn that around and say, my provider does the most hip replacements, and therefore, is an expert at doing hip replacements. so we need to put this data into context. the second thing that we know consumers really value is this cost quality equation. in other words the value equation. right now, we don't have very good measures of quality. so the information that could be presented on s

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and for those at the hhs, it is some of the lowest funding and over a decade. some of these questions will be answered as we move forward as part of these conversations about where we are in and where we're going to be. you know, i am hopeful there will be at another in the ryan murray approach and we can move forward, and that is going to happen. that is not a specific answer to your question, it certainly as we think through things, it is related. >> madam secretary, delaware also received one of the grants that allowed us to accelerate significantly our work to try to move away from the fee for service model. in, my question, and it really means improving access improving quality and the cost curve. we are encouraged by how all of these stakeholders are really at the table and working together. my question is really around the cost issue nationally. and certainly, some of the things i have been reading in terms of national health care cost and rates. it seems like there are a lot of increases around the country and despite efforts in many states to try to mo

>>host: then hhs secretary will be on capitol hill today testifying on the house side. what do you expect lawmakers will be asking her? >> some of the politics around the affordable care act has died down the past few months. so this hearing will be about the programs that hhs has with more education but there will be questions about insurance premiums and whether or not people can afford the coverage they are getting now is the changes as those prices continue to rise. >>host: our coverage is on live before the house education workforce committee. what is the next phase? >> of pieces that are in place are people on the exchanges to get insurance insurance, you may see more states to expand to become federal exchanges because it is difficult technologically and financially to run the state based exchange so that could be a trend that develops. the largest criticism republicans had is price is are fine now especially because they are receiving subsidies over the next to read three years they will grow at a rate that people cannot afford any more. >>host: the independent

warren, the new york giants physician is fantastic, one of the top orthopedists in the country, head of hhs, top surgeon for over ten years and i have a feeling from news reports that he wasn't involved in this. that's terrible. he could triage it and can you save the finger? sometimes you can reimplant the news, eric. if it's an explosion injury when the bones are broken apart then there's going to be a big problem. we don't know exactly what happened but i want people out there to know amputation is not the first thing you think about. you think about can i save the finger? david, more of a surgeon, more of an expert, i want to ask you what you think about that. can you try to save a finger, even reimplant it sometimes? >> that's a very good question and i'm glad you brought dr. russell warren, a friend of mine, and certainly one of the best orthopedic surgeons out there. you obviously try to catch it and look at the vass cla tour and look at whether you can salvage it. sometimes the scope of injury is so bad that better to remove it and prevent any kinds of infections and injuries in the

right now congress passed an sgr law earlier this year, but right now we know hhs is going to find it very difficult to double the amount of claims data in the system because medicaid and c.h.i.p. data is not standardized at the state level. we need to standardize that data and put it to use at the federal level so that consumers can use that information to make better choices. switching over to better tools, one of the thimpkngs that we think is absolutely critical, and we took a look across the cms plan comparison websites and we also looked at healthcare.gov and we looked at a number of the state-based exchanges and we're going to be released a paper on best practices for plan comparisons this fall, which will include a number of consumer focus groups and what consumers actually value in making plan selections. and i think what we found was a little disturbing. a lot of the websites don't present accurate information and they don't present it in plain english. it's very hard to select a plan on a website where you're trying to make an honest comparison. if there are loaded terms, j

basically the federal government, the hhs and howard to review benefits, review profitability reduce the overhead expense and all these other things so you can buy your own insurance and the state level but basically you can have whatever color you want as long as you want a black model t. it is all the same because the federal government is taking so much power away from the state and regulating health insurance and regulating benefit design, regulating affordability, but i believe states can do other things in terms of interstate and compacts and other things, because of the power of the federal government has. we need to get the federal government out of the way, we can go help their citizens, for example you are limited in what you do. i can't impact of federal tax code as governor. if i want to help people in my state go by, it is hard to do that without congress, without the administration removing some of the restrictions. there is absolutely a proper role for the states to play in this in terms of insurance regulation medicaid, but the problem is obamacare to way, i don't thi

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host: hhs for will will be on capitol hill testifying -- burwell will be on capitol hill testifying. what do you think lawmakers will be asking her? guest: i think the intense vitriol and politicking has died down in the past few months. i think this hearing will be a lot more about the programs that hhs has that fall under more education type things. there will still be difficult questions about insurance premiums and whether or not people are going to be able to afford the coverage they are getting now. host: we will have coverage today of the hearing. you can watch it on c-span.org with the hhs secretary before the house education and workforce committee. what is the next phase of the afford care act? -- affordable care act? guest: i think with king v. burwell behind the administration, you might see more state exchanges become federal exchanges. it is pretty difficult for them technologically and financially to run a state-based exchange. that might be a trend that develops. i think the largest criticism that republicans have of the law is that the prices are fine now on the exch

the cdc and hhs to office of inspector general have roles of enforcement.dc's division of select agent can refer to entities the office of inspector general for civil money penalties were certainly notices of violation. cdc could deny come or revoke suspend registration are required a lab to enter into a performance improvement plan. criminal charges also made in cases of misuse, unauthorized possession of unauthorized transfer. dr. sosin, could you briefly walk us through the enforcement options and how you determine the appropriate response for a given violation. >> thank you for your question. you correctly pointed out the options, the administrative options to cdc has to suspend deny or revoke that the process of self is intended to screen and assured there's good laboratory disconnected leadership and an appropriate use for the select agent materials. that process is intended to assure that the entity itself could take the appropriate steps that it needs to take. the decision to suspend or revoke is one taken very seriously. importance of balance in th

both cdc and hhs through their offices of inspector general have roles and enforcement. cdc's division of select agents and toxins can refer entities to the office of inspector general for civil money penalties or certainly notices of violation. cdc could deny, revoke or suspend a lab's registration or require a lab to enter into a performance improvement plan. criminal charges can also be made in cases of misuse, unauthorized possession or unauthorized transfer. so dr. sosin could you walk us through the different options and how you determine the appropriate response for a given violation? >> thank you for your question. you've correctly pointed out the options, the administrative options. the registration process itself is intended to screen and assure that there's good laboratory practice, good laboratory leadership, an appropriate use for the select it's materialagent materials. so that process are intended to assure that the entity itself is taking the appropriate steps that it needs to take. the decision to suspend or revoke is one taken very seriously. the import

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expanding the audits and evaluation and we will focus on oversight of the select agent program and hhseopard -- laboratories. through hour. >> i am pleased to be here today to discuss g.a.o. work of high containment laboratories. biosafety and security practices are intended to reduce exposure to biological agents and prevent their loss of theft or misuse. the recent shipments of live anthrax bacteria from dod to u.s. and international laboratories similar to the last your exposure to live anthrax bacteria shows multiple breakdowns with establish policies and inadequate oversight of the federal consumer laboratories it is another example of ongoing safety lapses that continue to occur often with the say in koch says prior incidents. we have been lucky so far. researchers work with high-risk biological agents that could result in serious infections that have the potential to be used with biological weapons. those to develop vaccines and countermeasures to understand the emerging infectious diseases. that also have the potential for high consequences. and to have that transmission of blo

and posted guidance for those exposed to those viruses and hhs amended the antiviral drug to be available for use in response to the current domestic outbreak. riposted worker protection with the use of personal protective equipment and we recommend pp for those in direct contact going into buildings with a sick or dead bird species or litter from infected poultry. recommended ppe is properly fitted safety goggles goggles, disposable gloves and boots and inappropriate respirator as well as disposable flew with resisted coveralls we have protocol in place in the event of a suspected case. state health departments are asked to investigate potential human cases and notify us within 24 hours of identifying a person under investigation. for monitoring the health of workers for signs and symptoms that occur within 10 days of their last exposure. also with the public health labs using the kits that we develop and distribute to carry out genetic analysis which do not show any markers previously associated with increased severity. we have ongoing studies in animals including my san ferrets to eval

at hhs we have been taking steps to make that a reality.ary, we announced historic goals to move 30% of medicare payments to alternative payment models, such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments and 50% of those payments by 2018, that means paying for value, not paying for volume. by doing so we can pay providers for how well, rather than how much care they provide people. a few months ago we announced a new payment model to encourage coordination among providers who take heart and hip and joint replacements to give this new model would create one payment with quality measures for an episode of care. 90 days from which the point you have your surgery to the 90 days you are supposed be fully recovered. rather than being incentivized by payments for each x-ray and checkup, they are going to have an incentive on the quality and total cost of performing a replacement and the included recovery. since medicare and medicaid cover nearly one out of three americans we know we have a responsibility to lead where we can. we know we w

there are also very stringent review processes that are run by medicare services, by hhs, on exchangesr, weide, have an election looming, clearly, and as we head into campaign season, i do think the regulatory process will be more onerous than typical. it could run from 12 months at the very least to 18 months, i expect there will be a lot of pricing concessions that the regulators will ask for for the consumers and for clearance and most likely devasting -- di vestures as well. scarlet: there is a limitation, so how does this play into that? blue bylaws,e some i think one is on a national level, two thirds of the combined company has to be blue-branded. we have the estimate of safety plus seemsof 65% doable, but at the local level, i believe it is about an 80% threshold, that seems very doable. so at least as far as the limitations of the blue cross and blue shield association's, they are in fact quite global. there are other concerns, however, which i am not sure we have only heard from the management team, and that is just the relationship that is betweenthe relationship the places

run byre restrictions medicare and hhs on the exchanges.ve an election looming and we are clearly headed into campaign season. as a result, i do think the regulatory process will be more onerous than typical. it could run from 12 months at the very least to at least 18 months. i expect at there will be a lot of pricing concessions that the regulators will ask for from the consumer for smaller employers and most likely some to vested -- divestorsesters as well. scarlet: there are some complications here because there are limitations. are some bylaws, i think one is on the national level. two thirds of the business of the combined company has to be blue branded. we have done some preliminary estimates on this, the estimate of 65 plus percent seems doable, at65% plus seems doable, but the local level, i believe it is about an 80% threshold, that seems very global. so at least as far as the limitations of the blue cross blue shield association, they are in fact quite doable. there are other concerns, however, and i am not sure we have fully hea

host: hhs for will will be on capitol hill testifying -- burwell will be on capitol hill testifying. what do you think lawmakers will be asking her? guest: i think the intense vitriol and politicking has died down in the past few months. i think this hearing will be a lot more about the programs that hhs has that fall under more education type things. there will still be difficult questions about insurance premiums and whether or not people are going to be able to afford the coverage they are getting now. host: we will have coverage today of the hearing. you can watch it on c-span.org with the hhs secretary before the house education and workforce committee. what is the next phase of the afford care act? -- affordable care act? guest: i think with king v. burwell behind the administration, you might see more state exchanges become federal exchanges. it is pretty difficult for them technologically and financially to run a state-based exchange. that might be a trend that develops. i think the largest criticism that republicans have of the law is that the prices are fine now on the exch

but they passed this step after calling hhs.hat did you do to verify the identity, and why is that significant? mr. bagdoyan: as i mentioned earlier, we were able to extend coverage by following the systems instructions. we failed the initial online test, we contacted the contractor, they could not clear it, then they instructed us to call the marketplace, which we did. then we obtained coverage. it was a phone call. senator wyden: after being denied twice, people got back in. this is a policy issue. somehow, your people snuck in. mr. bagdoyan: we would do that, senator, as an indicator of a control gap. i know that is a technical and dirty thing to say. senator portman: you can get in by a self attestation with no proof. in some cases, joe submitted only some of the documents but received coverage in subsidies because of the good-faith exemption. can you describe that policy, and why it enabled you to receive coverage and subsidies. and the legal basis that dhhs used in implementing it. mr. bagdoyan: senator portman, we are awa

the second question is hhs is prohibited under part b from revealing drug prices. the private sector is not. managed care and health insurers aggressively negotiate the costs in part d. the interesting thing when we enacted that law, we talked to cbo about that specific provision. getting in the middle of these negotiations, the private sector negotiations to get the drug discounts, versus letting the folks who do this on a daily basis negotiate the discount in the private sector. they said if you had that provision in there, it probably would mess with the negotiations. but you definitely wouldn't save any money. and if you repealed that provision in the law today what cbo will tell you is, it will not save a single dime. the reason is, those ppms and those health plans are already negotiating the discounts. and they're already being passed on to consumers. that's why -- that's one of the reasons we did it. >> joel going back to the first part of that question. someone sent forward a question on a card, suggestion, actually after a long description of a situation

>> hhs. you look for prominence, you look for a sweet contract. >> what does he bring -- >> gain national prominence. diversity. but obviously he's doing very poorly. >> do you think he wins in a contest between he and nikki haley? >> no. >> i think nikki might have the nod on him. >> another reason he is probably in this now is because he is doing so poorly at home. i mean, there's only one -- actually, zero of the state-wide republican officials even showed up for his announcement speech. he's unpopular at home. >>> we've got to stop being the stupid party. i'm serious. than the naacp, however, they were not a civil rights organization until after the kennedy assassination, jfk, 1963, and suddenly there was a big push to go after mail-order rifles, et cetera. before that, the nra was a gun safety organization. and wanting gun training, et cetera. they became a civil rights when it came down to defending the second amendment. >> if you're bobby jindal and barely registering in the polls, you

. >> our hhs funding is focused on the issues of preventative care for women, things like mammogramson screenings. >> planned parenthood hasn't released a formal statement on the newest video today. in a conference call with reporters an executive there said the video was put out by militant anti-abortion extremists who took the conversations out of context. >> chris, thank you so much for that report. joining me to talk about the planned parenthood controversy, and much more is republican presidential candidate, dr. ben carson thanks so much for being here. we always appreciate you popping by. you spoke at the rally, as we saw in the report. i want you to take a listen to what the executive vice president of planned parenthood said to cnn earlier today. >> when they talk about defunding, americans need to know what rear talking about is cutting women off of cancer screenings breast exams. birth control, all std testing and treatment, abortion doesn't come into play at all with federal funding. >> the argument is that none of the federal money pays for abortion. that is separate fund