Ten Things You May Not Know About The Accountable Care Act
Ten Things Health Care Consumers May Not Know About the Accountable Care Act The Accountable Care Act is perhaps the most meaningful of the 2010 health care reform mandates and a number of health care organizations have completed their first year in the program. This article highlights some of the consumer protection and cost cutting mandates and reveals the impetus for each element. 1- Application of evidence-based medical care, as a means to evaluate and pay for health services One of the results of the fifty-state, private payer national health care panorama is there are a lot of differences in patient care patterns, with some doctors ignoring the evidence based recommendations of national organizations, which result in disparate clinical outcomes. This means significant variances in patient deaths, re-admission rates for hospitalizations following treatment, and medical complications. An example of this phenomenon is in cardiac care, which has expanded the application of th...