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The future of algorithmic nondiscrimination compliance in the affordable care act [PDF]
npj Digital MedicineA new Section 1557 rule bans discrimination by AI-based clinical decision tools, with compliance required by May 2025. This paper explores challenges in identifying and mitigating algorithmic bias, especially where outcome disparities exist. We emphasize
William G. La Cava +2 more
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Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2014 This entry describes the development and key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which instituted a major overhaul of the U.S. health system, much of which took effect in 2014. The key provisions of the ACA included an individual mandate to purchase insurance, an employer mandate to offer coverage to most workers, an ...
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Postgraduate Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2015 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (‘‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,’’ 2010) is the culmination of a hundred years of wrangling over the government’s role in health care. The fact that the bill passed in the face of intense opposition shows just how dire the situation had become with regard to the health of the nation ...
Elisabeth Deeran, J. Chris Carey
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What’s Left of the Affordable Care Act? A Progress Report
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 We assess the progress of the Affordable Care Act a decade after it became law. Although most of it remains intact, some parts have been repealed and others have not been implemented as expected. We review how and why the law has aged.
Helen Levy, Andrew Ying, Nicholas Bagley
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Income elasticity of demand for tanning bed usage: evidence from survey data
Journal of Applied Economics, 2022 Using data on U.S. adults from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we estimate the causal income elasticity of tanning bed usage conditional upon use. While controlling for individual characteristics, we employ instrumented probit and count data
Neil R. Meredith +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 PurposeThe passage of the Affordable Care Act in the US resulted in more Americans with health insurance coverage as well as expanded health benefits. However, barriers in accessing health care still exist in the US especially as it relates to some of ...
Kathryn Mazurek, Wei Xue, Marissa Beldon
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INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2013 In the midst of countless healthcare debates, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is written into legislation as a possible solution to the United States's rising healthcare costs.
Leo Lai Ho Lui, Albert Wertheimer
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From the Affordable Care Act to Affordable Care [PDF]
JAMA, 2015 Health reform is a process, not a destination. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not be the last word in health policy any more than were Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA focused primarily on extending insurance coverage. Going forward, policy will need to address 2 areas the ACA pursued less vigorously: continuing to slow the increase in health costs ...
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The Facts About Applying: Health Care Coverage and the Affordable Care Act
EDIS, 2013 President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, putting in place a set of reforms to health coverage in the United States. For Americans who have health insurance, they do not have to change their current plan under the health ...
Meg McAlpine, Martie Gillen
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Appalachian disparities in tobacco cessation treatment utilization in Medicaid
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2020 Background Kentucky Medicaid enrollees, particularly those in the rural Appalachian region, face disproportionate smoking rates and tobacco-related disease burden relative to the rest of the United States (US).
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