Here’s a roundup of the latest healthcare news from California, New York, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told Congress it left out 34 incident reports involving lab mistakes from information it provided to a congressional investigation in 2014, according to USA Today.

As the House and Senate work in a conference committee on anti-opioid abuse legislation, a coalition called Health IT Now has asked lawmakers to lay out more specific standards on how different states’ prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) will be interoperable. 

Legislation providing $1.1 billion in funding for anti-Zika virus efforts has passed in the House, but the Obama administration and the leader of the Senate Democrats are strongly criticizing the proposal.

Just a day before congressional Republicans introduced a plan to replace the ACA, HHS released a study saying Medicaid expansion under the law has been beneficial to the vast majority of its users. 

A study released by Frank R. Lichtenberg of the Montreal Economic Institute said while the price of prescription drugs remains high, the implementation of medical innovation leads to more savings in the long run.

One way to improve the risk pool on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces is to get more young adults to purchase coverage on the exchanges, so HHS has laid out some of its strategies to court younger people who haven’t enrolled in prior years.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a cap on Medicaid funding, medical liability reform and loosening restrictions on insurers denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions are among the features of the new House Republican health care plan.