The General Accounting Office has deemed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ready to make the switch to ICD-10, reports Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Easing rules around accountable care organizations will not draw in more takers, reports Modern Healthcare. 

The GOP-controlled House passed legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, with zero Democrats voting in favor of the bill, reports The New York Times.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has unveiled an "Obamacare Repeal Act" that would repeal the act "as if such Act had not been enacted," according to the National Review Online. 

The White House announced that it is pumping $215 million into federal health and science agencies so they can develop infrastructure that allows data to flow between medical clinics to labs that sequence the human genome and gather other data, reports Politico.

The Congressional movement to eliminate the 2.3 percent medical device tax is misguided and may do more harm than good, according to an editorial in The New York Times.  

The House Energy and Commerce Committee published a discussion draft of new legislation, called the 21st Century Cures Act, that would promote the development of new medical advances for drugs and medical devices, reports Roll Call. 

An industry coalition representing some of the largest healthcare systems and insurers is supporting a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to accelerate the movement towards value-based care, reports The New York Times.