Xavier Becerra is reflecting on tenure as HHS secretary. He told Scripps News, "We're leaving this country is healthier and stronger."

As of Monday, FDA commissioner Robert Califf, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, Medicare director Meena Seshamani, and FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research director Patrizia Cavazzoni have retired or intend to retire prior to Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

XAVIER BECERRA: Thanks, Mary Louise ... These are drugs that, in a given year, will cost Medicare somewhere around $40 billion - just these 15. And remember, Medicare provides access to about ...

Medicare will soon negotiate prices for 15 more drugs as part of an effort to reduce costs for seniors and people with disabilities, federal health officials announced in a news release. The negotiations,

In a wide-ranging interview, Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s health secretary, defended his tenure and hinted that he might run for governor of California.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says “this is a big deal.” Drug companies oppose the program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services negotiated ... the American people," Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said in a statement. "We believe that we can be successful ...

For years, Medicare had been legally prohibited from ... this is a big deal,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a call with reporters on Thursday.

The Biden Administration announced the next batch of 15 prescription drugs that will be included in price negotiations with companies — with the aim of lowering costs for people covered by Medicare.

He also would oversee the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which, as the name implies, manages those two programs. HHS services, in other words, touch the lives of every American—and Medicaid and Medicare are,

President Donald Trump’s decision to tap Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation’s top health agency has elicited criticism from abortion-rights supporters and opponents. Kennedy’s confirmation hearing before the U.

Of the scores of day-one executive orders (EOs) issued by President Trump, the order rescinding a Biden administration executive order on