On April 1, eHI joined more than 100 other organizations in urging Congressional Appropriators to remove language in Section 510 of the Fiscal Year 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from spending any federal dollars to promulgate or adopt a national unique health identifier standard. This antiquated ban has stymied federal patient matching efforts for decades and we urge removing the ban once and for all.