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HHS final rule scheduled for November 3 excludes some gender dysphoria from its disability definition
A final HHS rule scheduled to appear in the Federal Register November 3 changes the disability definition used in its section 504 rules for recipients of HHS funding. It says gender dysphoria not resulting from a physical impairment falls within a statutory exclusion. The public-inspection copy leaves its effective date in a 60-day bracket; it is not a new comment deadline.
Also filed underdisability-rightshealth-caresection-504federal-register
Final health-price rule adds telephone access in 2027 and changes the files insurers must publish
A final rule published October 6 adds telephone access to health-plan cost information for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. It also restructures public price files and moves their updates from monthly to quarterly. The published effective date is December 7, 2026; separate file requirements begin March 6 and September 6, 2027.
Also filed underhealth-insuranceprice-transparencyfederal-registerhealthcare-pricing
A federal proposal would remove the title IV-B child welfare reporting rules for states and tribes, cutting the hours those reports take by an estimated 61 percent
The Administration for Children and Families proposes removing the regulations behind the Child and Family Services Plan, the Annual Progress and Services Report and Form CFS-101, filed for public inspection October 2 and scheduled to publish October 5, 2026. ACF estimates the change would cut 235 state and tribal agencies' reporting from 49,350 to about 19,355 hours a year, a 60.78 percent reduction, saving those agencies an estimated $1.4 million a year. The review and penalty procedures are not rewritten. Comments are due 30 days after publication, through regulations.gov.
Also filed underchild-welfarefoster-carefederal-registerrulemaking
The 988 crisis line went dark for hours after a 2022 cyberattack. Four years later, GAO found seven of HHS's own required security control areas were never written into the agreement that runs it.
GAO's September 17 report on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — the number roughly 220 local crisis contact centers answer — finds the cybersecurity controls protecting it only partly in place. HHS defined oversight roles but 'did not include all key HHS-defined cybersecurity control areas' in its cooperative agreement with the network administrator, nor in the administrator's agreement with the crisis centers: seven missing control areas in the first, three in the second. The network administrator has not implemented current NIST password guidance and only partly implemented contingency-plan controls; the crisis centers have only partly implemented incident response and contingency planning. GAO's stated risk is specific: prolonged service disruption 'could... potentially prevent individuals in crisis access to timely mental health support.' Congress ordered this review in the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025. Ten recommendations, all open; HHS concurred with all of them.
Also filed undergao988cybersecuritymental-healthoversight
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