BACKGROUND

Legislative Priority 

Transition Paper

Advance Appropriation Transition Paper

NCUIH Celebrates Relief from Government - Wide Hiring Freeze for Indian Health Service

The National Tribal Budget Formulation Workgroup's Recommendations on IHS FY19 Budget

Tribal Budget Formulation Working Documents

NCUIH Presentation at the National Budget Formulation Meeting (February 16-17, 2017) 

TESTIMONY

NCUIH Testimony before House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee on FY18 Interior Appropriations Bill (May 16, 2017)

The National Tribal Budget Formulation Worgrup's Recommendation on the Indian Health Service Fiscal Year 2019 Budget (March 2017)

CORRESPONDENCE

Letter to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Natives in re Infrastructure Needs of UIHPs (May 15, 2017)

Letter to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in re Independent Outside Audit of the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 (S. 465) (April 24, 2017)

Letter to Representative Norma Torres in re Indian Health Service Hiring Freeze Exemption Act (H.R. 981) (February 9, 2017)

Letter to Administration Exemption from the Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze for the Indian Health Service (February 7, 2017)

Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze (January 23, 2017)

NCUIH POLICY NEWS

Indian Health Service Released the Office of Urban Indian Health Programs Strategic Plan-2017-2021 (September 11, 2017)

REMINDER: IHS Call on FY 2017 Urban Indian Health Budget Line Distribution is Today (September 8, 2017)

NCUIH’S Indian Health Policy News (September 6, 2017)

IHS Letters on FY 2017 Urban Indian Health Budget Line Distribution (September 6, 2017)

REMINDER: IHS Deadline to Submit Comments on RPMS is Today (August 25, 2017)

IHS Requests Urban Indian Confer and Comments (July 28, 2017)

NCUIH Special Edition Indian Health Policy News (July 20, 2017)

NCUIH's Indian Health Policy News (July 14, 2017)

IHS Holds Listening Sessions on the Resource and Patient Management System (July 5, 2017)

IHS Announces Tribal Consultation and Urban Confer on Health IT (July 5, 2017)

NCUIH's Indian Health Policy News (June 19, 2017)

NCUIH's Indian Health Policy News (May 25, 2017)

House Appropriators Express Support for NCUIH Agenda at Hearing (May 16, 2017)

NCUIH's Indian Health Policy News (May 2, 2017)

April All Tribes and Urban Indian Organizations Call: Indian Health Service Update and Budget 101 (April 8, 2107)

Vote and Testimony NEEDED Priorities, SDPI and Infrastructure (April 5, 2107)

NCUIH’s Indian Health Policy News (March 22, 2017)

NCUIH Celebrates Relief from Government - Wide Hiring Freeze for Indian Health (February 14, 2017)

NCUIH’s Indian Health Policy News (January 12, 2017)

The Indian Health Service Principal Deputy Director Mary Smith Highlights IHS Activities by 2016 (January 3, 2017)

NCUIH Comments on Office of Urban Indian Health Strategic Plan (December 4, 2017)

TIME SENSITIVE IHS Office of Urban Indian Health Programs Requests Urban Confer (November 29, 2016)

New Quality Framework to Guide Delivery of Care at Indian Health Service (November 26, 2016)

Indian Health Service and the US Department of Veterans Affairs Extend Comments (November 22, 2016)

 IHS Budget Formulation (October 28, 2016)

The IHS Extends Closing Date in Search for New OUIHP Director (Ocrober 25, 2016)

Office of Management and Budget Requests Comment on Standards for Maintaining (October 18, 2016)

IHS ls Looking for New OUIHP Director (October 16, 2016)

RECENT POLICY ARTICLE

Study Refutes a Big Health Care Special Interest’s Talking Points (October 19, 2017)

Native Americans are over-represented in Montana's prison system. What can be done? (September 19, 2017)

IHS Hearning in front of The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recommendations for agencies which provide services to American Indians/Alaska Natives, including the Indian Health Service (September 13, 2017)

LePage Cuts Last Direct Ties with Tribes on Public Health (September 12, 2017)

David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: What Is the Debt Ceiling? (September 1, 2017)

RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS

Independent Outside Audit of the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 (S.465)

Indian Health Service Hiring Freeze Exemption Act (H.R. 981)

Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze