Healthcare Reform
Understanding healthcare reform
The 2010 Affordable Care Act expands healthcare coverage to 32 million people; builds on the employer-based insurance system; initiates major insurance reforms; sets in motion future payment and delivery system reforms; and increases the focus on wellness and prevention.
ASHRM is an influential voice on issues related to risk management and patient safety and wants to be your primary source to help you understand health reform. This toolkit may assist you in navigating through health reform as it pertains to you, the health care risk management professional.
Toolkit
To help enhance your knowledge on health reform, click on the resources below. This toolkit will continually be updated to ensure you are fully informed.
- ASHRM
Health Reform Summary of Key Provisions (PDF)
Healthcare Reform: A Risk Manager's Perspective (webinar recording) (September 14, 2010)
Perspective on healthcare reform: Is an individual mandate constitutional? (PDF) (December, 2010)
- American Hospital Association
Summary of 2010 Health Care Reform Legislation (PDF) (April 19, 2010)
Estimating the Impact of Reform on Your Hospital (PDF) (March 26, 2010)
Getting More Reform Out of Health Reform (PDF) (February 24, 2010)
Healthcare Reform Implementation Timeline (PDF) (May, 2010)
Shaping The Future for a Healthier America: Medical Liability Reform (PDF) (April 14, 2010)
Advancing Excellence in Patient Care: Health Information Technology (PDF) (April 14, 2010)
Advancing Excellence in Patient Care: Quality and Patient Safety (PDF)
Protecting The Promise of Care: Medicare (PDF) (April 14, 2010)
Implementing Healthcare Reform (PDF)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS revisions on common coding-based RAC denials (PDF)
- Premier Inc.
Priorities for Implementing Healthcare Reform, video and handout (April 1, 2010)
- Consumers Union
Health Care Reform Law Poised to Make Health Care Safer: New Law Includes Important Patient Safety ProvisionsThat Will Save Lives and Health Care Dollars (March 31, 2010)
- Foley & Lardner, LLP
Landmark Health Care Reform Legislation Significantly Expands Government's Ability to Fight Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (March 31, 2010)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy (July 22, 2010)
- Deloitte Health Solutions
Accountable Care Organizations: A New Model for Sustainable Innovation (July 6, 2010)
- Kaiser Family Foundation
Final Summary of healthcare reform (March 24, 2010)
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
Medicare Recovery Audit Contracting: Lessons Learned to Address Improper Payments and Improve Contractor Coordination and Oversight (July 15, 2010)
- Morgan Lewis
Healthcare Reform Law and Mandatory Compliance Programs (PDF) (April 22, 2010)
Healthcare Reform Law: Comparative Effectiveness Provisions Concerning Healthcare Products and Services (PDF) (April 19, 2010)
Healthcare Reform Law Delivers New Transparency Requirements for the Health Industry (PDF) (March 29, 2010)
Healthcare Reform Law: Healthcare Fraud and Abuse and Program Integrity Provisions (PDF) (March 31, 2010)
- Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PDF) (March, 2007)
- Federation of American Hospitals
Comment letter on Workshop Regarding Accountable Care Organizations, and Implications Regarding Antitrust, Physician Self-Referral, Anti-kickback, and Civil Monetary Penalty Laws (PDF) (October 27, 2010)
- Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET)
Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project (PDF) (November, 2010)
Other Resources
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