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How the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Will Affect Employers [PDF]
North Carolina Medical Journal, 2013 This article provides an employer's perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Since this act was implemented, it has significantly impacted how employers have been planning for and providing health insurance to their employees.
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HIV Screening and the Affordable Care Act
American Journal of Men's Health, 2017 Men continue to bear disproportionate accounts of HIV diagnoses. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care act aims to address health care disparities by recommending preventative services, including HIV screening, expanding community health centers ...
Greg Carter MSN, RN CNS +2 more
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Why Employers Will Continue to Provide Health Insurance: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2012 The Congressional Budget Office, the Rand Corporation, and the Urban Institute have estimated that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will leave employer-sponsored coverage largely intact; in contrast, some economists and benefit ...
Linda J. Blumberg +3 more
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Why are Low-Income Teens More Likely to Lack Health Insurance Than Their Younger Peers?
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2011 Low-income teenagers are more likely to lack health insurance than younger children. Using data from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 rounds of the National Health Interview Survey, we examine whether differences between teens and younger children in ...
Lindsey Jeanne Leininger +1 more
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Racial disparities in cancer mortality in the United States, 2000-2010
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 Declining cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States (U.S.) have continued through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Reductions in tobacco use, greater uptake of prevention measures, adoption of early-detection methods, and ...
Eileen B O'keefe
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Mandated Health Insurance and Provider Reimbursement via Private Insurance
Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology, 2017 In 2006, Massachusetts passed a reform that required individuals to purchase health insurance and provided subsidized health insurance to low-income individuals.
Andrew Friedson, Allison Marier
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Cost Analysis in Shoulder Arthroplasty Surgery
Advances in Orthopedics, 2012 Cost in shoulder surgery has taken on a new focus with passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As part of this law, there is a provision for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the bundled payment initiative.
Matthew J. Teusink +3 more
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Turning Doctors Into Employees
Radical Teacher, 2014 Background: Much of the contentious debate surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) concerned its financing and its attempt to guarantee (near) universal access to healthcare through the private insurance market.
Matthew Anderson
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Factors in patients’ experience of hospital care: Evidence from California, 2009–2011
Patient Experience Journal, 2014 The use of measures of patient-centered care to evaluate hospital care is mandated by The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Using three years of data from 315 California acute-care hospitals and data collected from patients via the ...
Edmund Becker +6 more
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Global Pediatric Health, 2019 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act had a profound impact on health insurance coverage of children. Given the importance of pediatric specialty care, this study assessed access to pediatric orthopedic urgent care for a child’s likely operative
Jenny Nguyen BS +4 more
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