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Act's5
  • ACP believes that the proposal will harm patients by destabilizing the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual insurance market and undermining essential patient protections, resulting in higher premiums and increased medical costs for those most in need of care. (acponline.org)
  • The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion was implemented in 2014 with the aim of improving access to healthcare. (aats.org)
  • Public attention, however, has tended to focus on one detail of the Affordable Care Act's reforms, the individual mandate requiring all Americans to carry health insurance by 2014 or face a fine. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • Improving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's insurance coverage provisions: a position paper from the American College of Physicians [published online April 16, 2019]. (infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com)
  • Much of his proposal builds on the Affordable Care Act's initiatives to reduce wasteful spending and boost the quality of care. (physicianspractice.com)
Primary care physi10
  • Primary care physicians tend to be closer to retirement on average, demonstrating that these shortages are expected to worsen and pressure will only increase among the existing workforce. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to the lack of specialists in rural areas, primary care physicians are expected to perform a greater number of procedures on a larger mix of patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • An additional 8,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) will be needed in 2025 to treat patients obtaining coverage under PPACA, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2012). (managedhealthcareexecutive.com)
  • Ochsner Health's digital medicine programs work so well that they're being used as a recruitment tool for primary care physicians. (ama-assn.org)
  • According to the proposal, beginning in January, primary-care physicians would experience a 10-year freeze for Medicare reimbursements. (physicianspractice.com)
  • Exacerbating the problem are even greater shortages projected for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants-medical professionals who will be needed to supplement care for the increasing numbers of patients with cancer as they transition to long-term survivorship care. (ascopost.com)
  • According to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, 2 a confluence of circumstances led by population growth, an aging population, and health insurance expansion will drive the demand for additional primary care physicians to a staggering 52,000 by 2025. (ascopost.com)
  • According to Dr. Schilsky, ASCO is also reaching out to other medical societies to encourage the development of continuing education programs on the specific needs of patients with cancer to provide primary care physicians and specialists from various medical disciplines with the knowledge to better manage the health care of cancer survivors. (ascopost.com)
  • If we're talking about increasing the number of primary care physicians, talking about how do we better serve, talking about workforce, what is probably more important is what stakeholders say. (senate.gov)
  • We partnered with other medical organizations that represent primary-care physicians: the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Osteopathic Association. (medscape.com)
20222
  • The impending increasing demand for oncology services-by 2030, the number of new cancer cases will rise by 45% to 2.3 million a year, and by 2022, the number of cancer survivors, now at 14 million, will grow to 18 million 4 -coupled with the looming shortfall of oncologists as well as specialists from other medical disciplines raises the unsettling question: Who will take care of people will cancer? (ascopost.com)
  • PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The retrospective study included 39 patients, who underwent metabolic surgery from 2013-2022. (bvsalud.org)
Medicaid12
  • Licensed birth centers will now be covered by Medicaid, meaning that licensed care providers including Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) providing services in these centers to Medicaid-insured clients will be reimbursed for their work. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • Introduced in the House as the "Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009" by Congressman Charles Rangel on September 17, 2009, it was then considered by committee consideration by Ways and Means, a committee that decides on taxes, Medicaid and Social Security. (collegemagazine.com)
  • We sought to determine the impact of Medicaid expansion on access to care and outcomes for patients with lung cancer. (aats.org)
  • The American College of Physicians, an internal-medicine association, noted its relief that the measure, called the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, kept alive the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that temporarily raises Medicaid pay for primary-care services. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Federal assistance programs like Medicare and Medicaid have been stretched to the breaking point, and more than 40 million Americans continue to live with no health insurance benefits. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • Included in this appropriation is $10,753,903 the first year and $12,370,807 the second year from the general fund and $29,942,662 the first year and $31,559,566 the second year from nongeneral funds to reimburse the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System for indigent health care costs as reported by the hospital and adjusted by the department for indigent care savings related to Medicaid expansion. (virginia.gov)
  • 2. Included in this appropriation is $19,394,915 the first year and $20,621,854 the second year from the general fund and $34,109,693 the first year and $35,336,632 the second year from nongeneral funds to reimburse the University of Virginia Health System for indigent health care costs as reported by the hospital and adjusted by the department for indigent care savings related to Medicaid expansion. (virginia.gov)
  • One reason is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act significantly increased Medicaid coverage and removed some of the barriers to obtaining private coverage such as preexisting condition exclusions. (medscape.com)
  • Third, cancer rates for colorectal cancer and human papillomavirus-related cancers are increasing in some populations of patients younger than 65 years, and thus, private payers and Medicaid will pay relatively more for cancer care. (medscape.com)
  • The Obamacare expansion of Medicaid has been unsuccessful at expanding access to primary care. (senate.gov)
  • In February 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed that evidence is sufficient to provide annual LDCT screening for patients and in centers meeting eligibility criteria (4). (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to the bills proposed to cap Medicaid funding, the amendments proposed would essentially eviscerate existing protections that afford children and pregnant women the appropriate coverage that they need. (medscape.com)
Organizations8
  • On behalf of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), the national leadership organization of more than 2,000 Catholic health care systems, hospitals, long-term care facilities, sponsors, and related organizations, I strongly urge you to maintain support for efforts to improve and strengthen our nation's health care system by opposing the legislation before the House to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). (enewspf.com)
  • However, serious questions are being raised by patient care advocates and professional organizations pertaining to the consequences of this trend. (cardiomedlegal.com)
  • The NAQC is a bold partnership among the nation's leading nursing organizations, consumers, and other key stakeholders to advance the highest quality, safety and value of consumer-centered health care for all individuals, their families, and their communities. (nursingworld.org)
  • Catholic colleges, hospitals, and other Christian organizations will be forced to go against their conscience. (michaeljournal.org)
  • It "poses a very real risk to compromise physicians' ability to retain staff, care for Medicare patients and make the investments needed to modernize their practices and participate in new models of care delivery like Accountable Care Organizations," he said in a statement . (physicianspractice.com)
  • The American Medical Association (AMA) is working with physician organizations like the CAP to tackle issues from health care reform to the network adequacy. (cap.org)
  • Her clients include large publicly-held companies and complex multi-entity health care organizations. (tegecouncil.org)
  • Links to health care organizations are available. (cdc.gov)
20214
  • Perhaps the July 14, 2021 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Editorial Board's observation of the latest Democratic gargantuan spending bill is best: "The price of Republicans losing those two Georgia Senate seats in January was always going to be steep, and late Tuesday Democrats presented America with the bill: $4.1 trillion. (cagw.org)
  • The package would likely make permanent the temporary increases in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, premium subsidies, which Citizens Against Government Waste discussed in a February 2021 Waste Watcher . (cagw.org)
  • Currently, her main focus is assisting employers with the implementation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and drafting executive compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. (tegecouncil.org)
  • Design, Settings, and Participants: This cohort study included interactions from 2019 to 2021 for US patients ages 14 to 99 years who had experienced painful acute traumatic injuries and were treated and transported by an advanced life support unit following the activation of the 911 EMS system. (bvsalud.org)
20185
  • Washington, DC (February 22, 2018) - The American College of Physicians (ACP) is concerned about the government's proposed rule to allow Americans to purchase extended, short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans. (acponline.org)
  • Board-certified in both general and thoracic surgery, she became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2018. (aats.org)
  • The cost of care for patients with the 15 most prevalent types of cancer came to just over $156 billion in 2018, according to new findings. (medscape.com)
  • The analysis, which included data from 402,115 privately insured patients under age 65 with the 15 most common cancer types, found the total estimated cost of cancer care in 2018 came to $156.2 billion. (medscape.com)
  • 1 And that number could increase to 2,393 once the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2018. (ascopost.com)
Biden2
  • Over 3,000 pediatricians have filed suit against the Biden administration for a health care mandate that would require medical professionals to provide gender-related services despite medical objections. (thechristiankitchentable.com)
  • Marshall himself joined a handful of other Republican senators on January 6 in objecting to the electoral college results, but Congress eventually certified Biden as the winner. (britannica.com)
Academy of Family Physicians2
  • The American Academy of Family Physicians, also seeking a permanent SGR replacement, noted that postponed "sequestration" cuts called for by the Budget Control Act of 2011 still need to be addressed, too. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • However, the American Academy of Family Physicians determined that the evidence was insufficient to recommend for or against lung cancer screening with LDCT (7). (cdc.gov)
AAMC1
PPACA5
Association15
  • He is a former board member of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). (stanford.edu)
  • The American Medical Association and other groups have been practicing this exercise now for 10 years . (modernhealthcare.com)
  • We're not getting the value that we're paying into medical school right now to be able to produce an adequate primary care workforce," says newly installed American Association of Family Physician (AAFP) president Jeffrey Cain, MD. (managedhealthcareexecutive.com)
  • Dr. Jeanie Dassow of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the American College of Pediatricians and the Catholic Medical Association filed the suit last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga. (thechristiankitchentable.com)
  • The LSE editors ask authors submitting a post to the blog to confirm that they have no conflicts of interest as defined by the American Economic Association in its Disclosure Policy. (newyorkfed.org)
  • The 2024 American Medical Association Medical Student Advocacy Conference (MAC) will be held March 7-8, 2024. (ama-assn.org)
  • The Nursing Alliance for Quality Care (NAQC) has been managed by the American Nurses Association (ANA) since April 2013. (nursingworld.org)
  • For more information contact: Cheryl Peterson, Vice President of Nursing Programs, American Nurses Association at [email protected] . (nursingworld.org)
  • Industry safety standards such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), The Joint Commission standards, and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101: Life Safety Code can provide basic guidelines for what is necessary but oftentimes cannot be used to assess the various needs of specific facilities. (medsled.com)
  • The groups include American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI), Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), California Clinical Laboratory Association (CCLA), College of American Pathologists (CAP) and Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (SIMD). (blogspot.com)
  • We had a meeting with the deans of medical education at many of the medical schools as well as with the Association of American Medical Colleges to explore the idea of working together to develop a better, more comprehensive, and more organized cancer curriculum, and they were receptive to the idea," said Dr. Schilsky. (ascopost.com)
  • Here is from the American Hospital Association. (senate.gov)
  • And then let's talk about the Association of American Medical Colleges. (senate.gov)
  • The American Lung Association (5) and American Cancer Society (6) also support LDCT screening. (cdc.gov)
  • American Association of Colleges of 1426 Prince St. (cdc.gov)
Mandate3
  • The issues at hand were the constitutionality of the "individual mandate" which requires most Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. (collegemagazine.com)
  • The Sisters for Life from New York issued a statement expressing their support for the USCCB and their disgust in regards to the mandate enforced by the Obama administration, saying: "Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act each of us will be required by law to obtain health insurance, or face fines. (michaeljournal.org)
  • In fact, polls show that 50% of Americans oppose the mandate. (michaeljournal.org)
Advocates4
  • ACP advocates on behalf of internal medicine physicians and their patients on a number of timely issues. (acponline.org)
  • Some advocates for the increased utilization of NPs and PAs point to the benefits of more access to timely care, reduced costs for patients, and freeing up time for specialists like Cardiologists. (cardiomedlegal.com)
  • The American Council on Education (ACE) works on a variety of health-care issues and advocates for policies that consider the needs of students as well as the particular circumstances of campuses. (acenet.edu)
  • Los Angeles, CA- Patient advocates today will call on the Medical Board of California to reform a physician oversight process that shuts out patients, prioritizes secrecy and ultimately fails to adequately protect patients from doctors who cause harm. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Repeal4
  • As Congress considers legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, it's important to take a look at who is opposing repeal. (enewspf.com)
  • The AMA does not support initiatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act. (enewspf.com)
  • A repeal of all provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will return our health care system to its previous trends of unsustainable, increasing costs and ever-growing numbers of under- and uninsured Americans. (enewspf.com)
  • ACP believes that Congress should preserve and - as necessary - improve on these and other important reforms created by the Affordable Care Act, not repeal them. (enewspf.com)
Surgeons2
  • The ACR collaborated with the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in early April to send a similar letter to the top five national private insurers (Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Health Care Services Corporation, and UnitedHealthcare). (acr.org)
  • Most inspiring was that within a week, the American College of Surgeons published recommendations on gun safety and advocacy, written by 22 surgeons - eighteen of them "passionate firearm owners. (kevinmd.com)
Outcomes for patients1
  • Compare this to the ~15000 hours of training a licensed physician must have in order to promote the best possible outcomes for patients 6 . (cardiomedlegal.com)
Access21
  • The shortage of healthcare workers negatively impacts the quality of medical care due to decreased access to health services as well as an increase in workload placed on providers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Access barriers to health care, predominantly in the form of geography, can necessitate significant travel time as well as increased costs to obtain basic, primary care. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the key objectives of the ACA are to improve quality and lower healthcare costs, create new consumer protections, and improve access to healthcare. (wikipedia.org)
  • Allowing the sale of such limited plans for a year or even longer, as proposed in the rule, would leave patients with chronic or acute disease at risk for losing access to key health services they rely on, including laboratory tests, hospital stays, and prescription medications. (acponline.org)
  • What's more, the majority of women now covered by private insurance plans will lose their access to coverage for abortion care, and need to pay for separate insurance to cover this. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • This compounds the vulnerability of many pregnant women who will not be able to access the care they need at this important point in their lives. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • Healthcare disparities affect access to care and outcomes in lung cancer patients. (aats.org)
  • Ongoing monitoring is necessary to confirm the program's long-term impact on access to care and survival for NSCLC. (aats.org)
  • Only through payment and delivery-system reforms that re-establish primary care as the foundation of our health system will we improve patients' access to comprehensive, coordinated services that prevent illness, that manage chronic conditions and avoid complications and that end duplication and fragmentation of services," Dr. Glen Stream, AAFP board chairman, said in a news release . (modernhealthcare.com)
  • The point of the legislation has been, since its inception, to make healthcare affordable for all consumers and to give them access to fair, cost-effective insurance benefits. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • While nine in ten low-income families have an Internet connection, one-quarter of those families "below the median American income of $53,046 rely on mobile-only access. (jkcf.org)
  • It will have negative consequences on Americans' access to needed health care for years to come. (enewspf.com)
  • Does more timely access with a nonphysician provider mean substandard patient-reported outcomes? (cardiomedlegal.com)
  • John Kennedy and Kyrsten Sinema on the Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act, a bill that would require all colleges and universities to include certain mental health hotline numbers on student ID cards. (acenet.edu)
  • From ACE and 53 other associations to congressional leaders to request that Congress enact the Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment Act to ensure temporary reciprocity in licensing health professionals so they can practice across state l. (acenet.edu)
  • This proposal simply devalues the expertise and critical care that specialists provide to Medicare patients and will further restrict access to care for them,' neurosurgeon and spokesman for the alliance Alex Valadka said in a statement . (physicianspractice.com)
  • The majority of Americans support some restrictions on gun access and ownership, especially for those who are mentally ill or violent. (kevinmd.com)
  • By 2014, most Americans will have access to affordable health insurance. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • Reduce the financial risk to patients who are unable to access in-network services at in-network hospital and facilities by limiting their financial responsibility for unavoidable OON bills to in-network costs while maintaining incentives for patients to use in-network physicians when available to them. (cap.org)
  • I write today, however, to express deep concern that counterproductive measures included in the legislation jeopardize patient access to care, etc. (senate.gov)
  • Can you briefly describe the impact of CHIP on children's access to care? (medscape.com)
20201
  • American politician Roger Marshall was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2020. (britannica.com)
Reforms2
  • Ambitious in its scope, the Affordable Care Act continues to implement reforms to level the playing field, holding insurance companies to more equitable practices like an elimination of all exclusions for pre-existing conditions by 2014. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • She spent four years directing the group's Washington, D.C. office where she advocated for key health insurance market reforms that were ultimately enacted into law as part of the Affordable Care Act. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Advocacy1
  • She leads Consumer Watchdog's advocacy to improve patient safety in California, including passage of first-in-the-nation legislation requiring doctors to disclose when they are on probation for sexual misconduct to patients, and legislation requiring doctors to check a patient's prescription history before prescribing opioids and other drugs. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Centers4
  • The American College of Radiology ® (ACR ® ) has developed a form letter for lung cancer screening centers to send to their state and local private insurers urging them to update their lung cancer screening (LCS) coverage policies in accordance with the recently updated United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) LCS guidelines ( download the form letter ). (acr.org)
  • A new pregnancy assistance fund was established, providing $25 million annually for ten years to institutions of higher education, high schools and community service centers to help pregnant and parenting students obtain housing, prenatal and delivery care, childcare, foster care, adoption services, parenting education, and post-partum counseling services. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • It is hugely important that barriers preventing women from obtaining insurance, seeking prenatal and delivery care from CNMs or at birth centers, and breastfeeding at work have been lifted. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • Republicans care about community health centers. (senate.gov)
Acute3
  • Difficulties persist concerning the productivity, economic savings, and the quality of care delivered by NPs, PAs, and physicians in a diverse acute care environment and amid patients with complex healthcare needs 5 . (cardiomedlegal.com)
  • In a survey of 1,100 general internists across the United States to determine their attitudes and knowledge about the care of adult survivors of childhood cancer, on average, internists reported being "somewhat uncomfortable" caring for childhood cancer survivors and only 36.9%, 27%, and 25% of respondents said they were "somewhat comfortable" or "comfortable" caring for survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and osteosarcoma, respectively. (ascopost.com)
  • Conclusions and Relevance: In this nationwide study of patients treated by EMS for acute traumatic injuries, patients from racial or ethnic minority groups were less likely to have a pain score recorded, with Native American and Alaskan Natives the least likely to have a pain score recorded. (bvsalud.org)
Workforce3
  • Shortages in the healthcare workforce lead to overcompensation for providers due to a larger patient load, with more chronic disease management, along with overtime fees. (wikipedia.org)
  • The confluence of looming oncology workforce shortages just as demand for cancer care explodes has experts searching for solutions. (ascopost.com)
  • Put another way, provisions in this legislation to cut hospitals and health systems are cuts to the health care workforce, as more than half of the hospital's expenses reimburse nurses, physicians, technicians and other team members. (senate.gov)
Universities3
Legislation5
  • A "greater bipartisan effort" will be needed in 2013 to pass legislation that supports "transitions to payment models that provide predictable annual updates to physicians participating in Medicare, while being aligned with the provision of high-quality and efficient care. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • The passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was one of the most controversial pieces of legislation to move through Congress since President Obama was elected. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • Given new political circumstances, Congress will have another opportunity in the coming weeks to revisit health care reform and tweak pending legislation. (browndailyherald.com)
  • The CAP and the AMA oppose the current health care reform legislation. (cap.org)
  • Now, it is important the bill says it's important with the people who are frontline say, and they do not care for this legislation. (senate.gov)
20002
  • If there are 1000 to 2000 patients per physician and 500,000 physicians, we have the potential for reaching 100 million people. (medscape.com)
  • Our study included 54 medical interns and 45 residents who began training in April 2000 at the Carrión Hospital, where all patients with TB are housed in wards without respiratory isolation. (cdc.gov)
Abortion1
  • The Texas heartbeat Act, prohibits an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected, allowing exceptions for medical emergencies. (thechristiankitchentable.com)
America's3
  • We need poverty-based affirmative action at America's colleges," headlines The Washington Post in publishing Executive Director Harold Levy's op-ed on True Merit in admissions. (jkcf.org)
  • This alone would be enough to make us doubt that the Senate cares genuinely about the interests of America's students. (browndailyherald.com)
  • America's Essential Hospitals mission means they shoulder a disproportionate share of unreimbursed care. (senate.gov)
Physician6
  • Victims of Medical Harm Who Have Been Misled and Silenced Call on CA Medical Board to Endorse Patient Bill of Rights to Overhaul Physician. (consumerwatchdog.org)
  • They lobbied for a Florida physician gag law that restricted doctors from talking to their patients about gun safety. (kevinmd.com)
  • According to a recent study by ASCO, by 2025, overall demand for oncology services is projected to grow by 40%, but physician supply is predicted to increase by only 25%, generating a shortage of 2,258 oncologists providing full-time equivalent clinical care. (ascopost.com)
  • Primary Care Physician Experiences with Integrated Population-Scale Genetic Testing: A Mixed-Methods Assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • During this period of follow-up, no physician was aware of his having been exposed to a TB patient in the physician's home. (cdc.gov)
  • No physician reported consistently using a mask when examining patients with suspected TB or respiratory symptoms. (cdc.gov)
Pathologists2
  • The document serves as a practical guide for pathologists and laboratories to confirm the accuracy and concordance of their own whole slide imaging (WSI) systems for diagnostic work while ensuring the digital tool is being used properly for its intended clinical purpose in an effort to deliver optimal patient care. (blogspot.com)
  • The CAP is a part of the AMA House of Medicine and encourages our members to renew their AMA membership and work together with the AMA to help shape a health care system that best utilizes pathologists to deliver high-quality care and meets the evolving demands of patient care. (cap.org)
Afford3
  • Today, he has succeeded in making healthcare available for all Americans who have not been able to afford it. (collegemagazine.com)
  • Obama credits a letter in his office from a woman who gave up her health insurance after being diagnosed with cancer 18 years ago because she couldn't afford it, with being his motivation to have affordable healthcare for everyone. (collegemagazine.com)
  • Repealing the health care reform law will only move our health care system backward - and millions of patients simply can't afford that. (enewspf.com)
Nation's3
  • The nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals stand behind the Affordable Care Act. (enewspf.com)
  • Implementation of the Affordable Care Act is critical to addressing a number of the biggest challenges facing our health system including the escalating costs associated with our health care system, uneven quality and more than 100,000 deaths due to medical errors, discriminatory practices by health insurance providers and the shrinking ranks of the nation's primary care providers. (enewspf.com)
  • As an organizer with Consumer Watchdog, Balber ran campaigns to pass volunteer-qualified ballot measures enacting the nation's strongest municipal conflict of interest protections in five cities across California. (consumerwatchdog.org)
Obamacare1
Coverage10
  • Ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage is a moral imperative for our nation, and enactment of the Affordable Care Act was an important step toward that goal. (enewspf.com)
  • Almost 60 percent of Asian Americans receive health care coverage through their employers and the last thing we should be doing is weakening the ability of small business owners to provide quality health care to their employees. (enewspf.com)
  • This article affirmed the ACP's interest in transforming the "US health care system into one that attains universal coverage in a less costly and complex way. (infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com)
  • To help defend and maintain the significant coverage gains patients have benefited from because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the AMA filed an amicus brief opposing a ruling that struck it down. (ama-assn.org)
  • As state governments get ready for the Affordable Care Act coverage expansion, some are taking a close look at their networks of health care professionals to make sure they will be able to meet increased demands as more people gain health insurance. (blogspot.com)
  • The recommendation is important because the Affordable Care Act mandates first-dollar coverage for preventive services graded A or B by the USPSTF (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Suggested citation for this article: Levy AR, Bruen BK, Ku L. Health Care Reform and Women's Insurance Coverage for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening. (cdc.gov)
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will increase insurance coverage for US citizens and for breast and cervical cancer screening through insurance expansions and regulatory changes. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will expand coverage for cancer screening by reducing the number of uninsured people and by requiring private insurance and Medicare to cover breast and cervical cancer screening without cost-sharing. (cdc.gov)
  • Although low immunization coverage among preschoolers has been attributed to difficulties in reaching certain groups, such as the urban poor and racial and ethnic minorities, more recent evaluations suggest that the health-care delivery system itself bears much of the responsibility. (cdc.gov)
Practice10
  • As Associate Chair for Information Systems and a Medical Informatics Director for Stanford Health Care, Dr. Langlotz is responsible for the computer technology that supports the Stanford Radiology practice, including 8 million imaging studies that occupy nearly a petabyte of storage. (stanford.edu)
  • The NAQC and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Institute have launched a Practice Strategies Repository that will serve as a database for nurse-led and developed innovative solutions to ongoing patient quality and safety concerns. (nursingworld.org)
  • Foundational to this effort are the QSEN Competencies that have been incorporated into nursing education and are integral to successful nursing practice in patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics. (nursingworld.org)
  • This practice, known as preemption, has been used throughout much of American history. (constitutingamerica.org)
  • We are trained to interpret large-scale studies and apply the findings directly to our individual patients, a mode of practice called " evidence-based medicine . (kevinmd.com)
  • Additionally, student health insurance plans may no longer be able to calculate premiums based on the practice of "group rating," which has historically allowed for affordable plans. (browndailyherald.com)
  • Many of the newer therapeutics are oral medications that patients can self-administer at home, so that means less demand on nursing time for the administration of therapy in an office practice or clinic. (ascopost.com)
  • We need help to train these professionals in the practice of oncology, and it is ASCO's responsibility to work with the professional societies that support advanced practice providers to provide a training program and curricula so they are well trained in the needs of cancer patients. (ascopost.com)
  • To provide advanced practice providers with the educational resources necessary to meet the increasing demand for team-based oncology care and help mitigate the shortage of oncologists, ASCO University ® issued ASCO's Curricula for Advanced Practice Providers (ACAPP ™ ) in 2013 and updated the program's courses earlier this year. (ascopost.com)
  • Effective lung cancer screening programs will need to educate providers and patients to support informed decision making and to ensure that high-quality screening can be efficiently delivered in community practice. (cdc.gov)
Healthcare costs2
  • Healthcare costs in the U.S. are higher than anywhere else in the world, yet America lags behind other, less-developed nations in terms of life expectancy and the overall health of its citizenry. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • While healthcare costs overall have continued to rise over the years, the trend is especially pronounced for cancer care . (medscape.com)
Medicare4
  • This last-minute action on the part of Congress is a clear example of how the Medicare program is increasingly unreliable for physicians and patients," Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, AMA president, said in a news release . (modernhealthcare.com)
  • This instability stalls progress in moving Medicare toward new healthcare delivery models that can improve value for patients through better care coordination. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • The plan also calls for reducing certain Medicare special payments including graduate medical education payments to "better align with patient care costs. (physicianspractice.com)
  • Older Americans who use the Medicare program will continue to get discounts on their medications. (ethiopianreview.com)
Indigent2
  • Included in this appropriation is $71,773,601 the first year and $76,085,569 the second year from the general fund and $90,962,360 the first year and $95,874,328 the second year from nongeneral funds to reimburse the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System for indigent health care costs. (virginia.gov)
  • It also includes reductions associated with prior year indigent care reductions. (virginia.gov)
Radiology1
  • He is a founder and past president of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR) and has served as president of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), and the College of SIIM Fellows. (stanford.edu)
Pediatricians1
  • Pediatricians need to reach out to their patients. (medscape.com)
Council3
  • In a recent memo to congressional leadership, the American Council on Higher Education noted that 3 million students nationwide currently purchase health insurance through their schools. (browndailyherald.com)
  • The policy came out of a Council on Medical Service report, which wanted to ensure the continuity of care and underscored that new measures were needed to prevent disruptions in care for patients in active courses of treatment, especially for new enrollees in a health plan. (cap.org)
  • The council stressed that patients who change health plans while in an active course of treatment "should also have the opportunity to receive continued transitional care from their treating out-of-network physicians and hospitals at in-network cost-sharing levels. (cap.org)
Obama's3
  • Starting in 2014, each state will take the time to create a comprehensive plan conducive to helping as many Americans in their state, according to Obama's statement. (collegemagazine.com)
  • As the political debate surrounding the 2012 presidential elections begins to heat up, various measurements are being applied to President Obama's health care reform package. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • The American College of Physicians applauded President Obama's health care plans in a speech given in January of 2011. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
Practices2
  • And, this NRA tweet was a response to an American College of Physicians position paper written by doctors to guide others on the best practices of patient care. (kevinmd.com)
  • To eliminate barriers and obstacles (e.g., appointment-only systems and unnecessary prevaccination physical examinations) that impede efficient vaccine delivery and toencourage providers to take advantage of all health-care visits as opportunities to provide vaccinations, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) called for the development of standards for immunization policies and practices. (cdc.gov)
Hospitals2
  • That's enormous," says David Bronson, MD, president of the American College of Physicians and president of the Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals. (managedhealthcareexecutive.com)
  • These hospitals are concerned that these experts in providing culturally competent care to their marginalized communities will be harmed by this bill. (senate.gov)
Costs4
  • By this August, 13 million Americans will receive a rebate from health insurance companies because they spent too much on administrative costs and bonuses and not enough on the health care of Americans. (collegemagazine.com)
  • The rationale for using NPs and PAs is to provide primary healthcare services in a timely manner while reducing the costs associated with patient treatment. (cardiomedlegal.com)
  • Studies have shown that these high costs often cannot be justified with respect to clinical benefit, and the authors note that "further research is needed to explore the extent to which these costs reflect unnecessary or low-value care. (medscape.com)
  • If individuals less healthy than average college students are introduced into the risk pool, students' costs will rise. (browndailyherald.com)
Republicans2
  • Democrats see this as a step in the right direction and say it will expand and transform American healthcare but Republicans see it as intrusive into private affairs and claim that once healthcare is reformed in this way "no area of American life will be safe. (collegemagazine.com)
  • In a battle that has raged for over a year, Republicans continue to wage war against the health care reform laws. (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
Obama9
  • President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010. (wikipedia.org)
  • Obama Health Care - what does it really mean? (reallycheaphealthinsurance.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working under the Obama administration, has passed an anti-Christian, Orwellian "preventative services regulation" to the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (michaeljournal.org)
  • If you want every American to vote and you think it's wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • If you think the president was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • Until President Obama put his presidency on the line and enacted the Affordable Health Care Act in 2009, some 40 million Americans had no health insurance. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • Before President Obama created the Consumer Financial and Protection Bureau, crooked financial institutions ranging from credit card companies to student loan sharks used all sorts of legal tricks and confusing language to trap and rip off unwary consumers. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which protected women and all other workers who are victims of wage discrimination on gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or disability. (ethiopianreview.com)
Lung cancer1
  • Providers viewed study results skeptically, particularly that 95% of abnormal LDCT results were false positives, the need to screen 320 patients to prevent 1 lung cancer death, and the small proportion of minority participants. (cdc.gov)
Organization3
  • It has become the "go to" organization in the field for advancing high-quality, patient-centered health care. (nursingworld.org)
  • The NAQC had been previously housed at The George Washington University School of Nursing (GWSON) since its inception and is now the "go to" organization in the field for advancing high-quality, patient-centered health care. (nursingworld.org)
  • If patients are not provided with safe and realistic means of evacuation in the event of an emergency, how can an organization claim it provides quality care at the facility? (medsled.com)
Barriers2
  • The NBCCEDP-eligible population would comprise a larger number of women with language and literacy-related barriers to care. (cdc.gov)
  • Genetic Testing Across Young Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Breast Cancer Survivors: Facilitators, Barriers, and Awareness of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. (cdc.gov)
Implementation1
  • We used the nationally representative 2009 American Community Survey to estimate the determinants of insurance status for women in Massachusetts, assuming full implementation of the ACA. (cdc.gov)
Physicians and patients1
  • The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. (ama-assn.org)
Higher5
  • Population growth, longer lifespans and the aging of America call for higher demand for medical professionals. (managedhealthcareexecutive.com)
  • Still, the results show there's little reason to take the higher dose, 325 milligrams, which many doctors assumed would work better than 81-milligram "baby aspirin," h Results were published Saturday by the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an American College of Cardiology conference. (reachmd.com)
  • Second, as private payers tend to pay significantly higher rates for care, and as new high-cost cancer therapies reach the market, private payers inevitably pay much more both overall and relative to other payers," the authors note. (medscape.com)
  • By stalling on an important student loan reform bill already passed by the House of Representatives, the Senate is standing in the way of major steps to reduce the extraordinary cost of higher education in America. (browndailyherald.com)
  • There has also been some discussion about subsidies, with tweaking of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and possible elimination of subsidies, which could possibly result in higher insurance deductibles. (medscape.com)
Fellow1
  • Mary is a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, the highest level of recognition for an ERISA attorney. (tegecouncil.org)
Passage2
Health system1
  • The enactment of the Affordable Care Act begins to shift our health system from one that focuses on treating the sick to one that focuses on keeping people healthy and addresses these challenges. (enewspf.com)
Vaccines2
  • Immunization of preschool-age children is intended to provide early protection to this most vulnerable group, and approximately 80% of the routine childhood vaccines are currently recommended to be administered by 15-18 months of age. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, not all providers take advantage of all opportunities to administer needed vaccines, because of failure either to screen the immunization status of a child during a health-care visit or to administer simultaneously all vaccines for which a child is eligible. (cdc.gov)
Years5
  • though in patients younger than 30 years many are of low malignant potential. (medscape.com)
  • Such a cut perpetuates the cycle of instability that elderly and disabled Americans have suffered for more than 10 years. (modernhealthcare.com)
  • Two free years of community college. (cagw.org)
  • In addition, as various bills and regulations to modify the Affordable Care Act have been proposed in the years since it was signed into law in 2010, ACE has routinely advocated for policies that protect institutions and help them support their students. (acenet.edu)
  • Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans over the last twenty years. (hologlobepress.com)
Attitudes2
  • Our study objective was to characterize the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of primary care providers about implementing LDCT screening. (cdc.gov)
  • Patient Knowledge and Attitudes towards Genetic Testing in Parkinson's Disease Subjects with Deep Brain Stimulation. (cdc.gov)
Population4
  • The labor shortage in terms of health care is expected to increase due to the overall aging of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The group rating process accounts for the fact that the pool of insured college students will, on average, tend to be healthier than other segments of the population. (browndailyherald.com)
  • Providers noted the complexity of discussing benefits and harms of screening and surveillance with their patient population. (cdc.gov)
  • New Mexico, the setting for our study, is a large, sparsely populated minority-majority state (non-Hispanic whites make up less than 50% of the population) characterized by low socioeconomic status and limited health care resources (10). (cdc.gov)
Hospital's1
  • Thoroughly preparing a facility and staff for a real-world emergency evacuation will ensure the proper care and protection of all patients and ultimately the hospital's post-event recovery. (medsled.com)
Services4
  • The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 requires insurers to cover preventive services with an "A" or "B" rating by the USPSTF at no cost to patients. (acr.org)
  • The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act was passed, providing $3 million for new grants to provide services to women with or at risk of developing post-partum depression or post-partum psychosis and their families. (orgasmicbirth.com)
  • To better understand the most common and costly services, Nicholas Zaorsky, MD, assistant professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine, and researcher at Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, and colleagues, analyzed data from MarketScan, a large private insurance database. (medscape.com)
  • Mercy Hospital Joplin has been providing services to patients and the community in modular facilities built since the tornado and will open a new 600,000 square-foot facility in 2015. (medsled.com)