The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

Although the EHR is still in a transitional state, this major shift that electronic medical records are taking is bringing many concerns to the table. Two concerns at the top of the list are privacy and standardization issues. In 1996, U.S. Congress enacted a non-for-profit organization called Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This law establishes national standards for privacy and security of health information. HIPAA deals with information standards, data integrity, confidentiality, accessing and handling your medical information. They also were designed to guarantee transferred information be protected from one facility to the next (Meridan, 2007). But even with the HIPAA privacy rules, they too have their shortcomings. HIPAA can’t fully safeguard the limitations of who’s accessible to your information. A short stay at your local

Health care cost has been constantly rising and a problem in this country for years. Millions go without much needed medical care every year due to the lack of health care. For many the emergency room is their first contact with medical care. The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) intends to significantly decrease the number of uninsured in American. The PPACA, is said to be most comprehensive insurance reform since 1965, (the year in which Medicare and Medicaid were implemented) was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Obama. PPACA will renovate the entire United States’ insurance market. PPACA requires most citizens to either purchase health care coverage privately or through their employer, or face a penalty.

In this paper you are going to learn all about the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Also, how does it pertain to the healthcare system? We will also be learning about the reimbursement rates for Medicare patients. Who makes up the Accountable Care Organization? We will also take a look into the Affordable Care Act and how the ACO is a part of that.

History was made as the President of the United States signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) delivers access to quality, affordable health care to all Americans. The breakthrough legislation, passed in March of 2010, represents the most significant government expansion and regulatory overhaul of the country’s healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 (Dix, 2013). The PPACA promises to reduce health disparities, improve access to preventative services, improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare spending. As stated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the PPACA will provide coverage to more than 94 percent of

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in March of 2010 by President Barak Obama. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obama care went into effect on January 1st of 2014. More than half of the United States of America was uninsured before the ACA was put into effect. The goal of the ACA is to provide those who fall in the “gap” with health insurance.

Currently Patton-Fuller Community Hospital does not employ an ERP System. “[ERP] software integrates the planning, management, and use of all of the resources in the entire enterprise. It is comprised of sets of applications that automate routine back-end operations (such as financial, inventory management, and scheduling).” (Iniewski et al, 2008)

Health care has become an integral component in the lives of modern Americans. In recent history, President Barack Obama introduced a new health reform legislation known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This act is detrimental to the social well-being and economic success of the American people as it raises insurance premiums, significantly increases taxes, and harms businesses. It damages the quality of health care, stunts economic growth, and causes decreased wages and unemployment. The reform is a hindrance to the advancement of the health care industry, and thus Obama’s policy position of health care is unacceptable and unsound.

The Patient Protection and Affordable care Act also known as Affordable Care Act, Obama Care and ACA is an act signed into law by the current president of the United States, Barack Obama in March 23, 2010. Beginning in 2014, any failure to purchase minimum coverage will result in a person being fined. Also included in the Act are individual mandate requirements, expanding public programs, health insurance exchanges, transition to private insurance, what is required of employers and cost and coverage estimates. I chose to write on this topic in support the Affordable Care Act, because as registered nurse working in the emergency room I have dealt with people that are not insured and therefore, were unable to afford healthcare. I wanted to learn more about and make the affordable Care Act work. I don 't think people should scrounge to get affordable healthcare even though sometimes it is not the best healthcare.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), into law. The United States is at the beginning of a long overdue and much needed overhaul to the health care system. The changes made to the law by legislation, focuses on: provisions to expand public health coverage, an effort to control health care costs, initiatives to improve health care delivery system, and reorganization of spending under Medicare (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). More than 90 changes were included in the law; some went into effect almost immediately such as: posting of caloric details at major chain restaurants, taxation on tanning, and more breastfeeding rooms and

In this paper I plan to discuss an increasingly difficult topic of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I will go over the basics of the act including who founded it, when, what it states as well as what its purpose is. I will also discuss the nine titles of the Affordable Care Act. I will then go over how four of the nine titles have affected how nurses provide care. I will finalize my paper by reflecting upon what I have learned from the Affordable Care Act.

Since the enactment of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), health care has

On March 23rd, and March 30th, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the paperwork for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This act is a law that was put into place to help make sure all Americans could have access to affordable, quality health insurance coverage. The ACA has now been available for five years with more than sixteen million people insured through it. “Over a period of several years of implementation that began in 2010 and will continue through 2019, the spectrum of the ACA provisions will change how health care is delivered and financed in ways that vastly exceed the impacts of Medicare and Medicaid.” (Sultz & Young, 2014, p.xxiv) The ACA is a law and in this paper, I will be discussing the major components of it which are Titles I-X and how it has improved the health care delivery system in the United States. This act is extremely important to Americans because it helps to make insurance affordable and keeps premiums down.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as the Affordable Care Act and informally labeled Obamacare, is a federal statute that President Barack Obama approved in 2010. Its aim is to ensure that all Americans have access to quality and affordable health care and that the nation’s health care system is in a position to contain the expected costs of the program (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015). It is made up of nine titles, which essentially outline the anticipated implications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among these titles, the ACA outlines strategies to increase accessibility to quality and affordable health care by transforming health insurance in the country, improving the overall quality and efficiency of health care, and redefining the role of public health programs. It also covers the distribution of resources in addition to increasing the transparency and integrity of the health care programs with a particular focus on the utilization of distributed resources. Since the implementation of this law, citizens have had the opportunity to observe its impact on the health care system, and hospice care is not an exception. It is important to mention that some of these impacts were expected even before the implementation. Examples include the dynamic change in supply and demand of hospice care, the number of people with access to care, and some financial impacts. Other consequences such as the role of technology,

The patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the most debatable act which was signed into law on March 23rd, 2010 by President Obama ("Obamacare Bill: Full PPACA & Related Laws," n.d.). According to "Affordable Care Act and the IAFF" (2014), PPACA has three main objectives: expand access to healthcare coverage, shield patients against illogical actions by health insurance companies, and cut healthcare costs. The United States (U.S.) is the only advanced country that spend twice as much on patient care, yet still has greater rates of preventable deaths caused by curable illnesses. High healthcare spending, lack of access to healthcare services, and restrictions by health insurance companies to obtain crucial health services are the driving force behind the PPACA. PPACA was passed to benefit every citizen of America, but many view this law as problematic and challenging. Is PPACA constructive or destructive? This paper will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of PPACA.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the most comprehensive reform of the U.S. medical system in at least 45 years. The ACA transforms the non-group insurance market in the United States, mandates that most residents have health insurance, significantly expands public insurance and subsidizes private insurance coverage, raises revenues from a variety of new taxes, and reduces and reorganizes spending under the nation’s largest health insurance plan, Medicare. If fully implemented, the ACA promises to lead to a dramatically different health care landscape for the United States in the years to come. Projecting the impacts of such fundamental reform to the health care system is fraught with difficulty. But such projections were required for the legislative process, and were delivered by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO projected that the ACA would increase health insurance coverage by 32 million people and would raise federal government spending by almost $1 trillion over the subsequent decade, but would raise revenues and reduce spending by even more so that the bill overall reduced the federal budget deficit. These CBO projections were central to the legislative debate over the ACA. In this paper, I will discuss the impact of the ACA in more detail, and describe evidence that sheds light upon the accuracy of the projections. I begin by reviewing in broad detail the structure of the ACA.