Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) of 2005 spurred the development of a system to encourage healthcare staff to report medical errors voluntarily. Regulations also mandate the proper use, storage, and disposal of PPE.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. First, while the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The ACA also allows states to prohibit abortion coverage in their qualified health plans, but requires that such plans provide notice to potential enrollees of the exclusion of abortion coverage. It also does not relieve healthcare providers of their obligations to provide emergency services under federal or state laws.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015. Oh, and did I mention that life spans are longer for people who live in places with greater primary care physician supply?

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And, you know, the ACA, or Obamacare, actually made a lot of headway in covering big swaths of the uninsured population. And Medicare finally added a prescription drug benefit in 2005. I’m old enough to remember fights over the ACA, death panels, and the independent Medicare advisory board that never happened.

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