Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 03, 2015 -- Isabel Healthcare announced today an agreement with the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) to offer the Isabel diagnosis decision support tool to its physician assistant (PA) members through their Affinity Partner member benefits program.

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.

Community Health Systems and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals will pay a $75 million settlement to the feds for making illegal donations to county governments to reap more funding under a now-discontinued matching program, reports Modern Healthcare.  

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.  

After many assurances over the past year that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) want to relieve some of the regulatory burden providers face, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) this week announced an aggressive plan to move to pay-for-performance rather than volume.

Anthem is ramping up its value-based payments to providers. The insurer announced that it investing $38 billion in additional funding to move away from fee-for-service medicine, reports Forbes. 

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.