Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

Yes, I know that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandated that health insurance companies can only keep to 20% of your premium and have to return the other 80% as benefits. However, the ACA states “…an insurance company must assign 80% of their premiums to activities that develop the healthcare sector.” is ‘the will of this society.’

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 put providers on notice that quality of care measures, like reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes, would take precedence over fee-for-service models.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The first line chart illustrates rural hospital closures since 2010. Now we’ll move to the third chart, a heat map which shows those states with the highest number of rural hospital closures since 2010. The darker red shades represent the states with the greatest rural hospital losses. and lower Great Plains.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 28, 2024

Here are key dates in compliance history: 1965 – Medicare and Medicaid 1996 – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 2009 – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act 2010 – Affordable Care Act (ACA) 2015 – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) 2023 – OIG Issues update – (..)

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

Even with the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, health care has turned out to be not-so-affordable nor accessible for U.S. health citizens. “For many Americans, the law failed to live up to its promise of more affordable care,” Levey wrote in KHN.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

in 2017, about the same proportion as in 2016 — but nearly 20 million fewer than in 2010, as the line chart illustrates. The report details Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-September 2017. About 28 million people were uninsured in the U.S. million Americans in 2017.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a precursor for health engagement, Edelman’s Health Engagement taught us in 2010, and that lesson is crucial to dot-connect with the 2018 data for U.S. health ecosystem stakeholders. That’s because the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

La deuda de los pacientes se acumula a pesar de la histórica Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) de 2010. ACA amplió la cobertura de seguro a decenas de millones de estadounidenses. Esto hace que la enfermedad sea un factor de predicción de deuda médica más poderoso que la pobreza o el seguro.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The ACA also allows states to prohibit abortion coverage in their qualified health plans, but requires that such plans provide notice to potential enrollees of the exclusion of abortion coverage. It also does not relieve healthcare providers of their obligations to provide emergency services under federal or state laws.

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AIHC

AUGUST 13, 2024

Written by Corliss Collins , BSHIM, RHIT, CRCR, CSM, CCA, CBCS, CPDC and Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The 2024 Final Rule for Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on April 26, 2024.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Broad Implications for Preventative Health Care Section 2713 of the ACA , requires health plans and health insurers to provide coverage for a range of “preventative care services” without patient cost-sharing. The ACA’s definition of “preventative care services” includes certain services recommended by the USPSTF, the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The Affordable Care Act is always a target for litigation (roughly 2,000 lawsuits since 2010). One such effort is a recent suit challenging HHS rules under ACA section 1557 and its prohibition against discrimination in health care. HHS policies will no doubt be challenged under Loper Bright.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g., Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

The Gallup Poll , fielded in the first week of March 2018, found that peoples’ overall economic and employment concerns are on the decline since 2010, at the height of the Great Recession which began in 2008. While 70% of Americans were worried about economic matters in 2010, only 34% of people in the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2023

The latest round of rules and legislation comes as the ACA — passed in 2010 — is now cemented in the system. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who worked on the original ACA legislation.

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Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And while the Affordable Care Act has not been the focus of debate the way it was over the previous three presidential campaigns, who becomes the next president will have a major impact on the fate of the 2010 health law.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the meantime, though, my colleagues over the firewall at KFF report that some 5 million more uninsured Americans are actually eligible for free health care coverage under the ACA. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Forthcoming): The United States’ Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 improved and expanded availability of non-group health insurance. Margaret Blume-Kohout (Gettysburg College), The Affordable Care Act and Women’s Self-Employment, Feminist Econ. Previous studies have shown that women in the US.

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