Please help me with the following: Provide an in-depth policy assessment regardi

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Please help me with the following:

Provide an in-depth policy assessment regarding the impact of the ACA on hospitals.

Consider how the ACA has impacted healthcare organizations, communities, and releveant stakeholders. Further describe impact on the interests and concerns of the community and hospitals in relation to the national, state, or regional persepective. Describe how hospitals have been impacted by the ACA.

Synthesize the ACA into digestible information to inform of the impact on hospitals

Explain Key points related to the ACA

Explanation / Answer

Indepth policy assessment of ACA on hospitals

Impact of ACA on health care organizations, communities and relevant stake holders:

Hospitals have been impacted by the ACA:

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Surge of patients

Increased number of newly insured and the expansion of Medicaid

It could flood hospitals with new, high use patients, taxing, and understaffed teams.

Receive less money for the same services in the short term based on the government’s decision to lower Medicare reimbursement

More transparency of hospitals

Aims to increase transparency by requiring tax exempt hospitals to conduct a community health needs hospitals.

Require to establish and written financial assistance policy

Transitional care for seniors

Community care transitions program will help high risk Medicare beneficiaries when they leave the hospital avoid unnecessary readmissions by coordination care

Quality focused care

Less volume of patients, more quality

Reduce costs with high quality of care

Linking payment to outcome

Part volume, part goal based performance

Financial incentives

2 payment services:

a.value based purchase

b. bundled payments

Fewer charity cases

Charity care is provided for the uninsured persons.