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The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act: Why It Is Important For Women’S Health, Mary Fanning
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act: Why It Is Important For Women’S Health, Mary Fanning
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010 ending the long history of disparity in access to health care services between insured and uninsured persons. Disparity between women and men in obtaining health insurance coverage is also corrected in the act. Women’s organizations that have focused attention on women’s distinctive health needs over the past century and a half laid the foundation for provisions in the legislation that address women’s health. This article addresses health insurance coverage, its impact on health, the particular challenges women have confronted in seeking coverage, …
The Impact Of Health Care Reform On Emergency Medical Services, Richard N. Bradley, Sabina A. Braithwaite
The Impact Of Health Care Reform On Emergency Medical Services, Richard N. Bradley, Sabina A. Braithwaite
Richard N Bradley
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law. The reforms introduced through PPACA present a paradigm shift in the future delivery model of all health care, including Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Changes embodied in this law offer a variety of opportunities to improve the delivery of care in urgent and emergent medical situations in the out-of-hospital setting. PPACA offers a number of avenues for EMS to engage at a much higher level as professional members of the health care team going forward. Certain components of the law stand to facilitate and …
Increasing Consumer Involvement In Medicaid Nursing Facility Reimbursement: Lessons From New York And Minnesota, Edward Alan Miller, Cynthia Rudder
Increasing Consumer Involvement In Medicaid Nursing Facility Reimbursement: Lessons From New York And Minnesota, Edward Alan Miller, Cynthia Rudder
Gerontology Institute Publications
Medicaid is the major purchaser of nursing home care in the United States. States design their methods of reimbursing nursing homes to achieve desired policy objectives related to facility cost and quality, access to care, payment equity, service capacity, and budgetary control. The incorporation of multiple, sometimes conflicting incentives into state reimbursement systems has resulted in enormously complex and demanding methodologies that inhibit consumer participation in state rating setting decisions. In turn, the lack of consumer involvement has the potential to result in the adoption of reimbursement systems that favor industry and government interests at the expense of issues important …