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Category: Workforce
Is the Affordable Care Act toxic to workers?
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health Care Workforce is a nurse-authored paper that appeared in a recent Heritage Foundation Backgrounder. In it, the author concludes that the Affordable Care Act does not address the root cause Continue Reading …
Primary Care Access Pre-ACA
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes roll out, many critics and proponents have voiced concerns about provider availability in the wake of massive increases of insured persons. In fact, recent data suggest that the uninsured rate has already fallen Continue Reading …
Report cards for hospitals
There has been increasing interest in public reporting of hospital and individual physician performance. Currently, most of these public reports have been utilized by payers and referring physicians, but they will ultimately be tied to reimbursement and payment schedules with Continue Reading …
Public plans and wait times
Merritt Hawkins, a for-profit, physician recruitment and workforce company, recently published a survey examining new patient access to physicians. Specifically, the survey recorded the time needed to schedule a new patient appointment with a physician in 15 major metropolitan markets Continue Reading …
How well do doctors know the ACA?
In the article “Physician Knowledge of and Attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the authors survey otolaryngology surgeons using the Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) 10 question health reform quiz. KFF published results from the general adult population Continue Reading …
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