A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a bill specifying discretionary funding for federal health and human services programs for fiscal year 2011. The Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill provides $292.3 million for nursing workforce development programs and $5.1 million for rural physician training grants. Among other provisions, it also includes $561 million for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fight health care fraud, a $250 million increase over FY 2010; $687.1 million for programs to prevent and reduce obesity-related chronic disease; $50 million to create a Cures Acceleration Network within the National Institutes of Health; and $40 million for two medical home demonstrations. For more information, see the bill summary. The full committee is expected to mark up the legislation tomorrow.