New HHS Secretary Alex Azar has the potential to reset national healthcare priorities and policies. Azar was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday by a 55-43 vote that included only a handful of Democrats voting in favor of his nomination. He succeeds President Trump’s first HHS secretary, Tom Price, M.D., a former Congressman from Georgia, who resigned last year amid controversy over his use of taxpayer funds for government travel using chartered private planes. Since May 2017, OCR has issued only two enforcement actions, including a $2.3 million HIPAA settlement with bankrupt cancer care clinic chain.”]
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