The federal Office of Management and Budget has posted an updated version of the administration’s 2026 unified regulatory agenda and among the items posted are more than 180 for the Department of Health Services.
Among the HHS items are 44 for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Most of the items are proposed rules, and among the issues CMS is expected to address through regulation during the rest of 2026 are the Medicare inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems, the Medicare physician fee schedule, Medicaid managed care and state-directed payments, hospital price transparency requirements, surprise medical bills, health privacy rules, and Medicare alternative payment models.
The agenda lists the rules by their agency within HHS, their subject, and their current status in the rulemaking process and includes links to addition information about each.
Learn more about HHS’s regulatory agenda from this list of agenda items posted by OMB and this Washington Post “Health Brief.”