Discussion: Understanding the Health Care Reform Act
How has the Patient and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the "Health Care Reform Act") reshaped financial arrangements between hospitals, physicians, and other providers with Medicare making a single payment for all care received by a beneficiary from 72 hours before admission to 30 days after discharge from an inpatient facility?
Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates' posts. Invite your peers to think about how the Medicare payments already challenge the healthcare organizations to maintain profitability and how these changes may have an even greater impact.