Affordable Care Act Case Study

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It has been 5 years since I have been in a clinical setting. However, in the last year that I was working in the Rheumatology clinic, it became common practice to assess every patient for current tobacco use. This was a facility wide implementation to assess for smoking and refer to smoking cessation programs if patients were willing. The implementation of this intervention was attached to the transition to an EMR system with key indicators for risk behaviors such as seat belt use, wearing helmets, regular exercise and tobacco use. I believe that many of these changes came about related to the Affordable Care Act. In researching some of the strategies put in place to prevent illness Koh & Sebelius (2010) explain that the Affordable Care Act worked to …show more content…
Other facilitators would be the EMR system automatically building these screening questions into the patient intake form. The nurses who completed the patient intake information and the physician who reviewed and further referred patients to programs for cessation also facilitated the screening. If patients answered yes to tobacco use, it automatically populated further questions related to referring to a smoking cessation program. Barriers to this practice were training and education of the staff in utilizing this opportunity to screen for and educate patients on the need for smoking cessation and its importance. There was no education done with the nurses to educate them on the need for this change or the ultimate goal in assessing these health risks. Time constraints would also be a barrier since the demands of the nurse to room patients quickly and physicians to increase their productivity may decrease the amount of attention brought to the screening and referral of this question. Many of the questions were asked because it was required but breezed

Affordable Care Act Case Study

Josh Castle Texas, Medicaid, and The Affordable Care Act Castle 1 Medicaid was put into action by the Social Security Act in 1965 and is designed to give free health insurance to individuals or families that cannot help themselves, or simply do not make enough money to afford private insurance. People that qualify for this program are those that have low-income, families and children, elderly, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. Though this program already covered a large amount of…

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Affordable Care Act Case Study

Pre-Existing Conditions in the Affordable Health Care Act Charles A. Flood American Public University System Abstract Pre-existing conditions are defined as anything such as illness, injury, sickness, disease, etc., that exists at the time of or before any event; in this case applying for healthcare. The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare” passed in 2010 resolved this issue by stating that patients with preexisting conditions could not be denied healthcare. The GOP has submitted legislature to…

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The Affordable Care Act: A Case Study

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, on March 23, 2010. In order to understand how the ACA brought more people into coverage lets first look at the statistics of the uninsured before the ACA (2010) and a six years later (2016). In the year of 2010 the Census Bureaus 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) stated, that there were 49.9 million uninsured individuals in 2010, or 16.3% of the total population (ASPE, 2011), which decreased to 28 million in 2016. As you can see under the ACA almost…

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Affordable Care Act Case Study

operational costs have been allocated through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the initial appropriation of $200 million for the building and renovation of SBHCs should be an incentive to increase the number of SBHCs in public schools. Since funding has been capped at the initial appropriation level, SBHCs will have to sustain their services overtime by diligently billing Medicaid or private insurance. However, these forms of payment often need sophisticated billing processes that can be costly…

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Affordable Care Act Case Study

The health care system in the United States has always a controversial topic. Objections regarding availability of quality and affordable health care have been raised and have been left without answers. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed and became official in 2010, which gave many people hope for improving health care in the United States. The signed PPACA originated the reform that began a different direction for the healthcare system that stresses the importance of preventive…

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The Affordable Care Act: A Case Study

patients when not in the hospital. Finding ways to help save money not only for our hospital, but for our patients will improve the Affordable Care Act. The ACA is also known as the Affordable care Act was presented by President Barak Obama, March 23, 2013. This was supposed to put our patients back in charge with their own lives and make medical care more affordable. Neither man nor woman is supposed…

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Health Care Affordable Care Act: A Case Study

Introduction Affordability has been a very serious health care issue that all Americans have faced over decades. During the last decade, increasing health care expenditure was a major problem for Americans in general, however, more for the uninsured as well as the underinsured persons who had to deep deeper into their pockets to pay for their health care costs. According to Karen Davis in her article, “Making Health Care Affordable for all Americans,” It was worrying as the number of the uninsured…

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Social Policy Paper

Daniel Bellido The Black Family Professor Davis The Affordable Care Act’s Effect on Minority Families in New Jersey The struggle of the African American family has …….In the 1960s, as Assistant Secretary of Labor for policy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a member of the Kennedy administration, dedicated himself to formulating national policies that would eventually become the War on Poverty. In 1965, he released his research paper The Negro Family: The Case for National Action AKA The Moynihan Report…

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Essay about Cons of Obamacare

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the first major healthcare act passed since the 1967's Medicare and Medicade act. Obamacare is the name given by critics, because of the power that is given to the federal government to regulate healthcare prices. The reason given that this act was passed is that it willl save billions of federal dollars each year. Many people against the act believe it should be repealed ,and the reason for…

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The ObamaCare Regulatory Rush Essay

Teela Carmack September 22, 2014 Article or Case Law Research What is ObamaCare? ObamaCare is another name for The Affordable Care Act (ACA); this is a federal law established in 2010 that establishes new consumer protections for individuals with their health insurance coverage, standards for care by doctors and hospitals and an expansion of health coverage. Most of the protections are in effect, care standards are being phased in over time, and the expansion of health coverage…

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