HHS Finalizes Unprecedented Regulatory Reform through Retrospective Review
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule to further democratic values of accountability and transparency. Specifically, the Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely (SUNSET) rule requires the Department to assess its regulations every ten years to determine whether they are subject to review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), which requires regular review of significant regulations. If a given regulation is subject to the RFA, the Department must review the regulation every ten years to determine whether the regulation is still needed and whether it is having appropriate impacts. Regulations will expire if the Department does not assess and, if required, review them in a timely manner.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday released a final rule requiring the agency to review its regulations once every ten years.
If a regulation is not reviewed, it may expire, said HHS.
The Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely, or SUNSET, rule, means that rules that are issued by an HHS component that are more than ten years old will need to be reviewed within five years. By terminating burdensome regulations unless their necessity is publicly demonstrated to the American people, our SUNSET rule will prove the boldest and most significant regulatory reform effort ever undertaken by the federal government,” said HHS Chief of Staff Brian Harrison.
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WASHINGTON Healthcare providers, if you re concerned that any guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be taken as gospel and enforced as regulation by Washington bureaucrats, HHS has two words for you: Don t worry.
On December 3, the agency finalized a Good Guidance Practices rule to help ensure that the public receives appropriate notice of new guidance documents and that HHS guidance documents do not impose obligations on regulated parties that are not already reflected in statutes or regulations, HHS said in a press release. This final rule . is part of a broader regulatory reform initiative within HHS.