Nursing Shortages There already are critical nursing shortages in the United States, which is the reason that foreign nurses have become "…an integral part of the U.S. healthcare system" (Arnold, 2013)
However, there are provisions going into the ACA that will ensure accurate compliance and patient accuracy when it comes to billing for medical home services. That is important because home health is a "robust and rapidly expanding segment of the healthcare industry"; as mentioned earlier, the American population is aging rapidly and the need for adequate nursing services and home care has never been greater (Jones, 40)
Home health, as Jones explains on page 40, has "great potential to improve quality of life and care for patients." Nurse-managed Health Clinics The great need that has arrived along with the ACA is the need to deliver healthcare to poor people who will be getting insurance for the first time -- and nurse practitioners in "nurse-managed health centers are poised" to meet this need (Pron, 2013)
The point of an ACO is not to solve all a person's problems, but rather to be "accountable for improving the quality of healthcare…while lowering costs" (Shugarman, 14). In the peer-reviewed publication, Dispute Resolution Journal, the author reveals that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established protocols that are designed to "improve coordination and communication among doctors and hospitals," and improve the quality of care in the meantime (Ronai, 2011)
The advantage for hospitals -- besides being able to fill their vacancies -- is realized in cost savings, Arnold continues: hiring a foreign-trained nurse could save a hospital up to $50,000 in a two-year period (1383). Continuum of Care The Affordable Care Act seeks to provide "a better continuum of care," one that is "person-centered" and that offers control while enhancing "quality" (Shugarman, et al
While such coverage will benefit some of our employees who are currently either excluded from the company plan or whose presence on the plan costs the company extra, insurance companies in general are expected to raise rates in response to this mandate. While the Act does set a cap on insurance premiums for individual and family plans for employees, those caps are in excess of $10,200 for an individual plan and $27,500 for family coverage (Klein, 2012)
15 cents. (Klein, 2013) At the same time, the commission proposes deep spending cuts which are much larger than the White House or Congress are proposing
The reasons why are, they have greater political cover (against a government shutdown) and Obama was clearly reelected. (Rosenberg, 2012) These two factors mean that the President will use this as leverage to eliminate tax loopholes and impose higher marginal rates on the wealthy
This change will be extreme and may have to be addressed by not only more primary care physicians but also advanced practice nurses, such as nurse practitioners and physicians assistants, nurse midwives and even naturopathic physicians who currently have limited (if any) practice rights in most states. These new consumer demands will likely increase the demand for providers, outside of physicians and will also likely drive alterations in laws to expand the practice rights of alternative providers in many states (Carlson, 2010)
Under the new law (PPACA) many of those individuals will have insurance coverage and therefore seek care more frequently. According to one source hospitals will be seeking to increase staffing of doctors by twice or more (Zolkos, 2011)
The acts that the government has drafted and implemented have various initiatives that drive them. These initiatives include reducing costs and so as to make access to health affordable and protecting the consumers (Parks, 2012)
Another part of the act is that which will ensure transparency and program integrity. Under this, the health program will provide information to the public on the health systems available and in addition promote implementation of new set of requirements to curb fraud and abuse in both private and public programs (Wolper, 2004)
It isn't controversial just because it's new and bold and people don't really understand all its components; it is controversial in large part because so much highly effective propaganda has been spewed forth on TV cable news, talk radio, and in other forums, that otherwise open-minded, fair-minded people have become skeptical or flat out rejected it. But what is the real story of ACA and what are the legitimate complaints against it? According to a story in the New Republic (Cohn, 2010, p
How about the attack that claims seniors will no longer have access to Medicare Advantage plans? Not true; the bill actually pays Medicare Advantage insurance companies "over $1,000 more per person on average than Original Medicare," the White House explains. Works Cited Cohn, Jonathan. (2010)
How all this legislation will go down is a matter of speculation right now, but hardly anyone denies that a new payment model for health care services, moving away from the current fee-for-service type payment model, is necessary for improved quality and the economic health of hospitals (Pharmacy Choice 2010). With a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, Congress is giving the health care industry as many as 32 million additional paying customers over the next few years (Abelson 2010)
The health care "system" in America has been continually under attack. While millions of Americans are uninsured, there is also the problem of hospitals being run more like "profit centers" (Berenson & Zuckerman 2010) than places of care
Where are we as a nation without healthcare? Why is the Affordable Care Act something so long in the making? During the 2008 elections, an imminent collapse of the American health care system was at hand. There were three "symptoms" (Brown 2008) being discussed: first, without any kind of affordable universal coverage, the system leaves an estimated 47 million Americans without health insurance (2008); second, health care costs are exorbitant ("the United States spends about 16% of its annual & #8230;GDP, or $6,400 per capita, on health care, whereas France…covers virtually its entire population reasonably well at 11% of GDP and half the per capita spending" (2008)); third, the U
Improvement Data The Affordable Health Care Act has some provisions that will help hospitals. For example, Section 3001 -- Rewarding High-Quality and Efficient Care -- establishes 'value-based purchasing,' which means that the government will make 'value-based incentive payments' to hospitals that offer care to Medicare patients that meets or exceeds certain performance standards and must relate to at least the following five conditions: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgery, and healthcare-associated infections (Greenwood 2010)
social legislation and something that most Americans felt was long overdue. President Obama said, "…the bill I'm signing will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see," enshrining, "the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care" (Jacobs & Skocpol 2010)
Still, even with multiple safety-net options, including community health centers, public hospitals, and clinic, at least 22,000 people died in the United States in 2006 because they lacked health insurance and had limited access to medical care. And the number of deaths related to lack of coverage has been increasing by about 1000 every year (Redlener & Grant 2009)