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Louisiana has adopted Medicaid expansion, making it the 32nd state, including the District of Columbia, to take on the Affordable Care Act initiative.

With full federal funding for expanding Medicaid set to expire at the end this year, President Barack Obama is proposing to indefinitely extend the health law provision for any of the 19 states that have not yet adopted the enhanced eligibility.

A growing number of primary care doctors, spurred by the federal health law and frustrations with insurance requirements, are bringing a service that generally has been considered "health care for billionaires" to middle-income, Medicaid and Medicare populations.

In a move that appears to go against the corporate trend, GE Healthcare has announced it is moving its global headquarters from the United Kingdom to Chicago effective early 2016.

Poor communications, revenue cycle deficiencies held back point-of-service collections, director Scott Urlich says, and it needed to be fixed.

Enthusiasm for gene therapy remains high this week at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, despite uneven clinical trials and uncertainty over pricing, according to published reports.

The momentum of open enrollment continued to wind down, with growth of less than 75,000 consumers in week 10, from January 3 to January 9, 2016.

Louisiana has adopted Medicaid expansion, making it the 32nd state, including the District of Columbia, to take on the Affordable Care Act initiative.

Anthem has proposed a $52.5 billion takeover of Cigna; Aetna pitched a $38.5 billion merger with Humana. If approved, the combined companies and the nation's largest insurer, UnitedHealth Group, would become the big three.

Meridian Health, a New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare organization, has revamped its patient payer interface by partnering with Patientco, a patient revenue cycle technology company.