Policy and Legislation

About 186,000 people in Louisiana signed up for health insurance under the law and almost all of them got help from the federal government to pay their premiums.

Text of a bill by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, to delay the switch to ICD-10 diagnostic coding surfaced on Monday, in which it requests further study on the disruption on healthcare providers could face resulting from the replacement of ICD-9.

Legislative tracking site govtrack.us gives the bill, submitted by Texas Rep. Ted Poe, a 1 percent chance of ever being enacted.

Paul Keckley, managing director for Navigant Center Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis, says King v. Burwell will decide much of the controversial reform's fate.

Sylvia Burwell tells Rick Scott that Florida's request for federal funding "falls short of the key principles HHS will use in considering proposals regarding uncompensated care pool programs."

Republicans have recently tried to play down positive reports for the ACA, such as one showing a 5 percent decrease in the number of uninsured Americans since the law went into effect.

Current National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has been acting assistant secretary since last fall.

Medicaid expansion, and the rise of insured populations seeking care at the for-profit company's 200 hospitals, pads balance sheet for the Tennessee-based healthcare provider.

The money, set aside under the Affordable Care Act, will help establish centers in 33 states and two U.S. territories, increasing access to primary healthcare services for nearly 650,000 people in communities that need them most.

Rep. Ted Poe, R-TX, introduced H.R. 2126, a bill seeking to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from replacing ICD-9 with ICD-10 diagnostic coding vocabulary.