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- The groundbreaking Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) compels nurses to continue innovation, transformational leadership, and care coordination as major stakeholders in provision of the next generation of cost containment, quality advances, and patient access improvements.
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Mar 22, 2023 · When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law in 2010, it transformed the entire fabric of the U.S. healthcare system, including how nurses and other healthcare professionals approached their jobs. This guide offers an overview of the ACA and examines what this historic reform means for nurses.
- Nurse Impact on National Health Cost Reduction
- The Dawn of Value Based Healthcare Reimbursement
- Opportunities For Nurses to Impact Healthcare Cost
- Nurse Impact on Healthcare Quality
- Nurse Impact on Access to Care
- Opportunities For Nurses to Lead Change
- Conclusion
- Authors
The Medicare Act of 1965 was the primordial legislation in American healthcare spending. Medicare and Medicaid began as a service for the elderly population and grew to include disabled people and individuals with end-stage renal disease (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], 2018b). Finkelstein (2005) referenced the tripling of the healt...
In the VBP model, healthcare payments are based on quality care that is cost efficient, and patient and family centered. Dealy (2018) compared the current healthcare payment systems to a chess game. Hospital administrators must learn to navigate the variety of payment systems to remain profitable in the short and long-term environment. The ultimate...
These principles have influenced nurses to become leaders in healthcare change.The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the IOM (2010) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, provided the blueprint for nurses to address the ACA changes. The four guiding principles included: 1) the need to achieve higher levels and educ...
As full partners with physicians, nurses provide unique disciplinary expertise to assist financial stakeholders...Regulations subsequent to the ACA link quality to reimbursement. Increasing levels of nursing education and removing barriers to full scope of nursing practice based on education advances quality initiatives across the healthcare delive...
The impact of nurses providing access to care across all populations is profound and long standing...Nurses have powerful influence over increasing care to communities through policy making and board room contributions. Actions of nurses in these positions have improved the health of communities by increasing access. The impact of nurses providing ...
Nurses serving on governing boards of health-related organizations have both the opportunity and the obligation to impact healthcare cost, quality, and access.The 2010 IOM report identified nurse involvement in healthcare decision making as a key component to create lasting change throughout healthcare reform efforts. This recommendation led to for...
What is clear is that nurses will continue to transform the provision of care in the United States... Whether the ACA remains the healthcare law of the United States is a question of political opinion, stakeholder debate, and legislative action. What is clear is that nurses will continue to transform the provision of care in the United States by le...
Kimberly Cleveland, JD, MSN, RN, C-MBC Email: kthoma43@kent.edu Kimberly Cleveland is a lecturer in the Nursing and Health Care Management Concentration and Coordinator of Undergraduate and Graduate Health Care Policy at Kent State University College of Nursing, in Kent, OH. She practices law as a solo practitioner, concentrating in healthcare, pro...
May 31, 2022 · Nurses can capitalize on the purpose of the ACA to leverage their power to improve quality, create efficient delivery systems, and pioneer innovations in healthcare while advocating for equity for patients (Cleveland et al., 2019).
Sep 15, 2023 · Legislation such as the Affordable Care Act impacts nurses by promoting healthcare accessibility and preventive services. Learn how RNs are responding.
Jan 10, 2020 · Instead, the Affordable Care Act wants patients to turn to smaller community-based facilities and clinics. This should help ease the load of ER and hospital nurses. Clinic nurses, on the other hand, will still likely feel the pressure of added patients.
Mar 19, 2020 · The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced wide-ranging health care reforms but faces many challenges. This article reviews 6 key points for today’s nurse leader on the law’s 10th anniversary: a renewed legal battle is on its way to the Supreme Court; 27 million people still lack coverage, partly due to nonexpansion of Medicaid in 15 states ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, its history, and what healthcare will look like during and after implementation are addressed in this article. A discussion of the role and value of nurses in healthcare reform accompanies knowledge-building and action-oriented resources available to nurses and clients.
