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ACA 5 year anniversary – Top 5 issues in Medicare & Medicaid

A goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to provide quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans. Now in its 5th year, how much progress has been made in Medicare and Medicaid?

This post is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.

A goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to provide quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans. Now in its 5th year, how much progress has been made in Medicare and Medicaid? Is it accurate to state, as some policy experts maintain, that the ACA has “had a major positive impact, and one that will continue to bring efficiencies over time”?

Check out Wolters Kluwer’s ACA 5th Anniversary Strategic Perspectives for an analysis of law’s effects on Medicare and Medicaid, including:

 

  • The expansion of Medicaid
  • The shift to value based purchasing
  • The focus on readmissions reduction
  • Extension of the Medicare Trust Fund
  • The “death panel” controversy


Download the white paper here.