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Impact	Change	Guidelines Under Stimulus Package	Contact
Health and Life Science			Kevin Woodhouse - kevin.woodhouse@icemiller.com
Medicaid Coverage and COBRA	$112 billion in additional funding	Will provide temporary increases in Federal Medicaid contributions for states, including additional DSH allocations.  Also provides a subsidy for COBRA benefits for recently unemployed individuals.
National Institute of Health (NIH) and Department of Health and Human Services	$15 billion in additional funding	This funding is for construction projects, acquiring scientific equipment, encouraging education and workforce growth, and conducting medical research.
Health Information Technology	$19 billion of incentive payments	This funding is intended to support the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act for the development of health information technology and to provide monetary incentives to spur the adoption of electronic health records.   It also revises existing health information privacy protections in significant ways.
National Science Foundation	$3 billion in additional funding	Earmarked to support research and construction projects.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality	$700 million in additional funding	To be used for comparative effectiveness research.
Defense Health Program	$400 million in additional funding	To be used to improve and repair military medical centers.