Senate AHRQ appropriations
Executive Summary
Senate fiscal 2006 HHS appropriations bill budgets $20 mil. for the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to perform comparative effectiveness research. The bill allocates $5 mil. more than the President's budget request and $5 mil. more than funding provided in the House HHS appropriations bill that passed in June. The research, which was mandated by the Medicare Modernization Act, was funded at $15 mil. in the fiscal 2005 omnibus appropriation bill (1"The Pink Sheet" Dec. 20, 2004, p. 11)...