The group of 17 state attorneys general who stepped in to defend the legislation are pushing Judge Reed O'Connor to clear up any ambiguity and give them a legal basis to file an appeal.
There could be much more said at the District Court level, where the judge has asked the parties to propose a schedule to resolve their remaining concerns.
Continuing to enforce the status quo brushes aside some concerns that the Trump administration could seize on an opportunity to immediately abandon ACA-backed programs.
The government's participation in the False Claims Act case demonstrates its commitment 'to hold healthcare providers responsible if they fail to ensure that the information they submit is truthful,' a DOJ official said.
A web page that had blasted Envision, as recently as this past weekend, for allegedly 'price gouging' emergency department patients has been updated to say only that a contract extension has been agreed upon.
The finding means that control of a Georgia nonprofit may be transferred to another nonprofit that's controlled by a public hospital authority in North Carolina.
Officials have made no secret of their disdain for the ACA, so some accused them of making an excuse to destabilize the market. Not so, says the CMS administrator.
