The Trump administration is remaking the healthcare policy landscape with major implications for providers, payers and health IT firms.

Those changes include drastic overhauls to the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency now under the purview of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and responsible for dictating payment rates for doctors and providing health coverage to tens of millions of Americans. Approximately 1 in 4 employees in the HHS have been laid off, pushed to retire early or encouraged to take a buyout.

More downsizing may be forthcoming. A leaked budget document shows the Trump administration aims to slash HHS spending by one-third.

More changes are coming from the new CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. A former television personality, Oz has promised to sc

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