American Medical Compliance

APRIL 17, 2024

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The first line chart illustrates rural hospital closures since 2010. The third graphic (second of my four chosen charts) compares two of the sixteen metrics, median operating margin and percent with negative operating margin, against the hospitals’ states that expanded Medicaid versus those that did not expand Medicaid.

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Health Care Reform 103

Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. Hospitals also claim as community benefits the difference between what it costs to provide a service and what Medicaid pays them, known as the Medicaid shortfall.

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Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid Medical Billing 66

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. This was accomplished by the U.S.

Public Health 176

Public Health COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 176