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Comprehensive ACA and ADA Compliance Training

American Medical Compliance

Understanding the ACA The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so. Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates rural hospital closures since 2010. Now we’ll move to the third chart, a heat map which shows those states with the highest number of rural hospital closures since 2010. Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g.,

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

Three-quarters of Americans believe that hospitals, clinics and physicians should look beyond patients medical/clinical needs into root causes like access to healthy food, transportation, and safe/clean housing — the social determinants of health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S.

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Federalizing Public Health

Bill of Health

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

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As Nonprofit Hospitals Reap Big Tax Breaks, States Scrutinize Their Required Charity Spending

Kaiser Health News

. “You can’t focus entirely on charity care” as a measure of community benefit. The 2010 Affordable Care Act, she noted, imposed additional community benefit mandates. Still, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, argues that community benefit is poorly defined.