Place matters in the United States. Access to affordable high-quality healthcare depends upon where you live. Throughout rural America, nearly 50 million people face challenges in accessing health care. The past several decades have consistently shown higher rates of poverty, mortality, and limited access to a primary health care provider in rural areas. With the recent economic downturn, there is potential for an increase in many of the healthcare disparities and access concerns that are already
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Introduction In Health care, quality and utilization management have been forced into the spotlight by an insatiable demand for technologically advancing services, a legal system that compels physician to order unnecessary services, and the costs that are soaring higher than ever. The inconsistent use, overuse, misuse or even under used healthcare services has created inefficiencies and value concerns that demand oversight to ensure the best care is received while utilizing resources in the most
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to a service based industry where they must pay increasing costs for services and customer service has essentially taken a back seat. The implementation of Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), as outlined in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), has now addressed this concern. The move from a prospective payment industry to a value based industry is to benefit the patient while holding providers accountable for usage of procedures and tests, and providing increasingly higher quality of care
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the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to offer adequate health services for everyone including a uninsured person. It is an affordable solution of the problem that a large amount of Americans do not have health insurance plans. Americans will fully receive benefits from the law by 2014. It is the effective law to achieve optimum health care service to resolve and prevent perceived deficiencies in healthcare delivery. However, PPACA does not automatically guarantee the high quality
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“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which became Public Law 111-148, is probably the most significant legislation affecting healthcare since the passage of the Social Security Act of 1965. . . . The law paved way for over 32 Million uninsured Americans to access acute care, primary care, preventive care, home care, and long-term and palliative care (Web, J. A & Marshal, D. R. 2010). The challenge in the implementation is compounded by the chronic shortage of nursing and other
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The Health Care Reform LaNette Hardy HCS/440 November 28, 2012 Facilitator : Thomas Kehoe The Health Care Reform The United States Healthcare reform went under transformation with the changes of Presidents. During the year of 2009, changes were made when our country begin to face difficulties in the financial deficit, which the country still today experiencing. It will explain that the level of the National Health cares spending that was impacted whether it was
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Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law, which creates health insurance reforms that will transform healthcare over the next four years. The PPACA will ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will create the transformation with the health care system necessary to contain costs (The Patient Protection). One of those health insurance reforms started on September 23, 2010, which will provide free preventive care. The PPACA will eliminate co-pays and deductibles
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Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would add 21 million people to its rolls, or half of the nation’s uninsured, many states chose to opt in following the June 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision which deemed the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) constitutional (AAFP)(Mears) Despite the ruling of the Supreme Court, the decision to accept Medicaid remains a divisive and heavily debated issue in many states. Indeed partisan bickering, already strained budgets and questions of uncertain monetary
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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) Certificate‐of‐need (CON) Prospective payment system (PPS) Balanced budget act (BBA) Regulations Affecting Health Care Patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA) Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program Observation admit status Mandatory electronic health records Pricing and Competition Trends Hospitals positioning and differentiation Hospitals competing for patients Hospitals competing for qualified doctors
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Health Care Utilization Paper I have chosen to conduct my assignment on Option A. Obama’s Health Care Reform, commonly called ObamaCare but officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (ObamaCare Facts, n.d.). According to “HHS.gov/HealthCare” (2015), “the Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care…under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights”
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