Affordable Care Act
This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment and other aspects of community benefit discussed in the earlier briefs, as well as on identifying and exploring more recent developments and emerging issues. Specifically, this brief discusses the…
In an historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), ruling 5-4 that the laws individual mandate to purchase health insurance was within Congresss taxing authority.
As we all prepare for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the coming weeks, the AHA is working to ensure that we provide the hospital field with relevant and timely information.
HHS and CMS recently issued three final rules to provide the required framework for a state health insurance exchange established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In late March, President Obama enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 \(PPACA\). The law contains a number of grants and contract opportunities for states, hospitals and other health care entities.
The federal government recently announced more than 00 million in funding to states for the development of state-wide health information exchanges \(HIEs\).
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These numbers represent rough 10 year estimates for advocacy purposes based on publicly available data from CMS. These numbers should not be used for budgeting purposes