The Guide to Healthcare Reform: Readings and Commentary

Daniel McLaughlin

• Publisher: ACHE Learn
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781567936957
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

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Instructor Resources: Course lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, answer guides to end-of-chapter discussion questions and application activities, links to current legislation and regulations, teaching notes, and a sample syllabus.

New! Comprehensive course lesson plans are designed to promote an active classroom. Use the lesson plans to set up a new course or adapt your current syllabus to this edition of the text. Activities have been designed to enhance critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as information retention and retrieval capacity. Designed for either an online or on-ground environment.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most comprehensive attempt to improve the American healthcare system in the past 50 years. This one-of-a-kind book walks through the evolution of the ACA and helps readers better understand its history, fundamental aspects, and implementation to date.

For this book, the author has assembled the most relevant readings from a wide variety of books, journals, and magazines. Tapping into his experience as a former healthcare executive, policy analyst, and lobbyist, McLaughlin shares his professional insight on the ACA through an analysis of the key theories that underlie the law, discussion of the significant impact of the new policies, and commentary on the readings.

Together, the readings and commentary allow readers to understand:

The principles that were used to create the ACA Major elements of the ACA that support: Population health and wellness Chronic disease management Improved quality and productivity A sustainable safety net Health insurance expansion and improvement Payment policies to achieve these goals The ACA as a part of the health policy development and advocacy process Current examples of the implementation of ACA policies in healthcare delivery Future possibilities

This book is suitable for courses on the US healthcare system, health policy, health economics, and strategy. It is also valuable for healthcare professionals who seek to expand their understanding of the healthcare system, especially in light of the changes brought by the ACA. Practical strategy implementations based on many of the policies contained in the ACA will appeal to both students and professionals.

Table of contents

• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Affordable Care Act
• Chapter 2A Additional Reading
• Chapter 3 Prevention, Wellness, and Poulation Health
• Chapter 3A Additional Readings-Introduction/Population Health Management
• Chapter 3B Additional Readings--Population Health: Practicing Population Health Management and Measuring Its Success
• Chapter 3C Addtional Readings--Community Health: A Measurable Management Task
• Chapter 3D Additional Readings--ACA Integration Initiatives That Promote Collaboration
• Chapter 3 Additional Readings--Population Health Improvement: A Community Health Business Model That Engages Partners in All Sectors
• Chapter 4 Chronic Disease Management And Primary Care
• Chapter 4A Additional Readings--Government Policy and Healthcare Reform
• Chapter 4B Additional Readings--Population Health: Coordinating Care to Provide Effectrive Population Health Management
• Chapter 4C Additional Readings--The Patient-Centered Medical Home Solution To Cost-Quality Conundrum
• Chapter 4D Additional Readings--Primary Care
• Chapter 5 Productivity And Quality
• Chapter 5A Additional Readings--How Purchasers Select And Pay For Value: The Movement To Value-Based Purchasing
• Chapter 5B Additional Readings--The Quality Improvement Landscape
• Chapter 6 Payment Incentives
• Chapter 6A Additional Readings--The Accountable Care Organization
• Chapter 6B Additional Readings--What Every CEO Should Know About Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor Program
• Chapter 6C Additional Readings--The Quest For Affordability in Healthcare
• Chapter 6D Additional Readings--The Medicare Hospital Payment Update
• Chapter 6E Additional Readings--Post-Acute Care And Vertical Integration After The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
• Chapter 7 The Safety Net
• Chapter 7A Additional Readings--Equity of Care--Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: The Call To Action
• Chapter 8 The Perfect Market: Health Insurance Reform
• Chapter 8A Additional Readings--Health Insurance Exchanges
• Chapter 9 Health Policy And Advocacy
• Chapter 9A Additional Readings--The Context And Process Of Health Policymaking
• Chapter 9B Additional Readings--Health Policymaking At The State And Local Levels And In The Private Sector
• Chapter 10 The Future
• Appendix
• Index
• About the Contributors
• About the Editor