Empowering Patients First Act Analysis

Our healthcare system is in a state of constant change. Just as the industry was adapting to the demands of countless healthcare reforms, the fate of regulations like the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and others like it, dangle in the wind. As the country transitions to a newly appointed administration, there is an increasing level of uncertainty among industry leaders. Federal, state, and local mandates continue to drive the need to improve the quality, costs, and outcomes of care which add to an already overburdened and burnout system. These coupled with our highly secular society who is primarily focused on the treating and curing illness through advanced technology, medications, and procedures has resulted in a

Provision 4. Title VII – Improving Access to Innovative Medical Therapies (Title VII. Improving Access to Innovative Medical Therapies, n.d.). – This provision makes it possible for people to have access to drugs without having to pay outrageous prices for them because the manufacturers are feuding with one another. With drugs that can help fight cancer costing in the hundred thousand range (Munos, B. 2013) , this is a great provision to have. So many times the drugs that can save a persons’ life is out of reach because of pricing. This can help with that issue.

Laws like these are being implemented and changed widely across the United States to help ensure patients are receiving adequate care that they deserve.

Sawbridge and Hewison (2015) believe that compassion is important to the delivery of patient care. However, professionals are working in environments that are increasingly targeted which can take the professionals away from delivering compassionate care (Baverstock and Finley 2016). This assignment aims to discuss how important and how realistic it is for health and social care leaders to balance compassion with effective and efficient service delivery. It aims to do this by exploring what is meant by the term compassion and the influence that it has on patient care. The author will then move on to discuss the impact compassion has on service delivery, considering if professionals need to balance compassion with effective and efficient care delivery including the if compassion is in fact required to deliver effective care.

approvals such as diagnostic test, prescription medicines, clinical trials and however insurers are using to

The first piece of legislation (one legislation I discussion 2 pieces of that) discuss is section 101 part of Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), a bipartisan legislation signed into law on April 16, 2015. This law was created to replace the current law in that time Medicare reimbursement schedule with, the revolutionary idea of new program supposed directed focus on the quality, value and accountability of the national health care program. The CMS describe MACRA as a modern system new payment framework, supposed rewarded the national health care providers to obtain the better care instead of more service, looking for value over volume. The information’s observed in the interview provides consistent points

yourself how this new policy will affect the way you care for your patients, report clinical

In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of a person’s ability to pay. The law's initial intent was to ensure patient access to emergency medical care and to prevent the practice of patient dumping, in which uninsured patients were transferred, solely for financial reasons, from private to public hospitals without consideration of their medical condition or stability for the transfer. EMTALA is considered one of the most comprehensive laws guaranteeing nondiscriminatory access to emergency medical care and to the health care system.

Throughout the past few years the healthcare industry has taken some precautions due to the recent bill passed that affect it, that being the healthcare reform or the Affordable Care Act (Kavilanz, 2010). In the past years healthcare has not been a concern of the average American, but this is changing rapidly. Though in 2014 healthcare was not among the top three concerns it did fall at number four (Cook, 2015). While at number four on the list last year it’s surely to increase in concern as the healthcare act becomes in full swing in 2015 (Cook, 2015). As Lindsay cook points out in her U.S News article on health care 2015 will be the year doctors see a pay cut and Americans without insurance see a penalty (Cook, 2015). Just like the rule of supply and demand, when the money supply of hardworking Americans decrease, the demand or concern in this case will increase.

This essay is based on the Case study of a patient named as Mrs Ford. It will be written as a logical account, adopting a problem solving approach to her care. She is elderly and has been admitted onto a medical ward in the hospital, following a stroke. This essay analyses the care that she will receive and focuses on the use of assessment tools in practice. Interventions will be put in place directly relating to the assessment feedback and in line with best practice.

1. Prepare a brief situational analysis of LMF for Dr. Townsend, identifying at least 3 internal issues and 3 external issue/competitive issues that are affecting LMF.

The purpose of this concept analysis is to clarify, define, and refine how patient advocacy is perceived in the nursing community. Much of the literature has attempted to define patient advocacy and emphasis its role within the nursing profession. This paper will discuss multiple definitions of patient advocacy from existing literature and refine them into two critical characteristics.

According to Healthy People 2012 there are more then 800,000 new cases of diabetes each year, with the numbers on the rise. With this in mind, Healthy People 2012 has identified diabetes as their number five focus area. In order to reach their goal of improving the quality of life for people with diabetes they have identified diabetes teaching as their number one objective. Furthermore, in order to reduce the number of complications of diabetes, Healthy People 2012 has identified foot ulcers as their ninth objective. Through patient education Healthy People 2012 hopes to reduce the number of foot ulcers in people with diabetes, as diabetes is the number one cause of nontraumatic amputations in the United States. In order to

Before turning to the most interesting findings, a methodological note is due. Like every ecosystem, the world of nonprofit investigative reporting is diverse and dynamic. As David Kaplan summarized in his 2012 report “Empowering Independent Media,” there are three main models of investigative nonprofits, although many organizations combine elements of different models: professional associations or networks, grant-making organizations, and reporting agencies.

No change: The cost is increasing every year in the health care industry. There is no way to transfer these costs to patients as the services are already costly. Change is the only constant. Change is inevitable for MGH to survive in this industry. There are no pros with this option and several cons such as having no standards, poor communication and coordination between groups and poor maintenance of patient’s track records.