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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"”.
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RESISTANCE TO MANDATED HEALTHCARE CHANGE: USING PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIREMENT
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed on March 23rd, 2010, contains widesweeping legislation aimed at reforming the current U.S. healthcare system. The ACA has been lauded by its proponents and deeply criticized by its opponents. The current paper included two experimental studies designed to test …
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San Francisco Bay Area School Districts Contracted with California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
<p>San Francisco Bay Area school districts contracted with California Public Employees’ Retirement system (CalPERS) and the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010</p> <p>This qualitative study examined the impact of high cost CalPERS medical plans on the participant’s …
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The Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 On the Evidence Based Practice of Distributive Justice Via Comfort Care In Elderly Burn Trauma Victims
… amazing recuperative capacity of the human body and the remarkable advance of modern healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) mandates the early identification of goals-of-care through shared decision-making. Survival, even for very large burns, is an expectation …
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Texas primary care and the Affordable Care Act : implications for the primary care physician workforce
Primary care physicians are the first point of contact for patients entering the formal health care system. A shortage of primary care physicians in the United States has left approximately 60 million people without adequate access to a physician, resulting in lowered health care outcomes and …
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THE EFFECT OF OWN RACE/ETHNICITY DENSITY ON INSURANCE TAKE-UP BY ASIAN AMERICANS
… et al., 2017). Since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Asian Americans have benefitted from insurance coverage increases but continue to experience disparities at the subgroup level (Park et al., 2018). This study investigates the association of own race …
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Community Health Needs Assessment and American Hospital Association
… Needs Assessment (CHNA) as established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This includes an analysis of the implementation process and the intervention development. The analysis includes five cases of the Kaiser Foundations Hospital, and an assessment using principles …
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"We Have a Longstanding Critical Problem…All Right?": The Promotion of Domestic Crisis in President Obama's Health Care Rhetoric
… President Barack Obama set to work on health care reform. Little more than a year later the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which achieved a goal of so many previous administrations, into law. In order to encourage the passage of health care reform, Obama …
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Improving the Implementation of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Role: Development of ACNP Role Implementation Guidelines
<p>With the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Value Based Purchasing (VBP) initiative, hospitals and the health System have rolled out a strategic goals of focusing on meeting the VBP objectives and standardizing care within their hospitals. To help …
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Health Insurance Exchanges: A Panacea or a Band-Aid?
… 111th Congress passed the first national health care reform in the United States, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This landmark legislation is intended to "fix" a health care system renowned for decreasing access and escalating costs. This paper examines one of the principal …
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The Influence of Regulatory Change on Hospital Medicare Cost Reporting Accuracy
… influences their daily operation, reporting, and reimbursement. Regulations, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) make changes to operating and reporting requirements for hospitals servicing the Medicare population that represents one-third of U.S. hospitals’ payer mix. …
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Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Need for Remote Area Medical in Central Appalachia After Health Reform.
… of President Barack Obama brought health care to the forefront of national discussions and led to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legislation changed the rules of health care delivery in the United States, but the ACA did not do one fundamental …
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Transitional Care Services: A Nurse-Led Quality Improvement Project
<p>With the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and a national requirement for health care providers and systems to deliver care that is safe, outcome driven, and cost effective, Dignity Health (DH) as part of the hospital engagement network (HEN) …
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Cracks in the System: The Gap between the Emergency Department and Primary Care
The recent implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010 expanded health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, but many still lack access to appropriate and timely health care. Federal law grants Americans a legal right to obtain stabilizing treatment for …
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
<p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ushered in a new era of fiscal accountability for healthcare organizations. Healthcare organizations and providers are now jointly held responsible for the improved quality of patient care and sustained reductions in patient care events …
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Implications of a Universal Healthcare System in the United States: Why Individual Health Is Now of National Concern
In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. This paper explores the implications of these new healthcare policies in the United States, given that a universal healthcare system has already being put in place. More specifically, it explores the question "Does …
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Horizontal Violence in the Nursing Work Environment: Beyond Oppressed Group Behavior
… expected to deepen as the provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are enacted. Horizontal violence is a negative phenomenon in the nursing workplace that contributes to difficulty in recruiting and retaining nurses in hospitals. Horizontal violence has been described as a …
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Investigation of California Physician-Owned Hospitals Profitability and Payor Mix Compared to Other Hospital Ownership Types: 2009 to 2015
… hospitals (POHs) intensified beginning in 1989 and continued until passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). Government studies attempted to better understand the allegations that POHs were exploiting the whole hospital exception in the Stark laws by primarily …
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Integrating community health workers in schools
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has set the tone for a radically revised health landscape in America that focuses on community-based care. Our health care system, however, has neither the infrastructure nor the vision to properly account for these demands. One possible …
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Improving the Patient Experience by Implementing Patient-Centered Care in a Community Hospital
<p>Health care is a complex business currently undergoing extensive reform. These changes require new methods of care deliver and ways in which health care organizations are operating. At the forefront of this change effort is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is …
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Designing A Care Delivery System Through Interprofessional Coordinated Care In A Medical Neighborhood Setting
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) has two significant aims: to improve the quality of healthcare and in doing so, to lower the cost of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, …
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