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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

I would add that the enactment (and some would say the design) of the ACA itself spurred payer consolidation. This may be reflected in how physicians, nurses and other clinical personnel are trained, compensated, and included in policy and procedural changes. Clinical applications.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

And as we discovered in 2017, when they were trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid is actually pretty popular, too, because it takes care of a lot of people’s grandparents in nursing homes. And, you know, the ACA, or Obamacare, actually made a lot of headway in covering big swaths of the uninsured population.