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Important Dates
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The maximum age to which to which a child can stay on their parent's health insurance plan.
What is 26? (2.5 million young people have gained coverage nationwide.)
100
Type of care providers must focus on as a result of the ACA
What is primary and/or preventive care? (Preventive services such as colonoscopies, mammograms and annual wellness visits must be provided with no cost sharing)
100
Insurance companies must now spend at least %80 of premium dollars on this
What is healthcare and quality improvements? (NOT overhead, executive salaries, or marketing. if less is spent, consumers get a rebate)
100
$250 million of new funding in scholarships, training, low-interest loans and loan repayment plans is earmarked for this.
What is new jobs and roles in healthcare? (Will help train and place 16,00 new primary care providers over the next 5 years.)
100
The Affordable Care Act becomes law.
What is 2010? (March)
200
Many Americans now have peace of mind because they can no longer be denied insurance for this.
What is a pre-existing condition? (gender and health status for adults in 2014)
200
60,209 people saved an average of $600 (total nearly $36 million) in 2011 on prescription drugs as a result of this provision.
What is the closing of the gap in Medicare prescription coverage known as the "doughnut hole"? (The coverage gap is still $2,930. The health care law eliminates the doughnut hole by 2020.)
200
This is now offered at no-cost on your health care plan
What is preventative services? (colonoscopy, mammograms, annual exams)
200
The ACA holds insurance companies accountable for excessive or unjustified premium increases by this penalty
What is preventing them from participating in the new Affordable Insurance Exchanges?
200
Establishing Affordable Insurance Exchanges
What is January 1, 2014? (An exchange is a transparent and competitive insurance marketplace that will offer you a choice of health plans.)
300
People with chronic illness can breathe a sigh of relief due to this provision?
What is eliminating life-time limits on insurance coverage?
300
20 million new patients will be served through what expansion.
What is community health centers? ($11 billion dollars earmarked to bolster and expand community health centers over the next five years)
300
Repealing the Affordable Care Act would not only be devastating for patients, but would actually make this problem worse.
What is the federal budget deficit? (New data from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the Affordable Care decreases the deficit)
300
Under-served and rural communities will benefit from this part of the act.
What is increased payment to rural providers? (Rural Americans and the ACA, will also help support the training and placement of more that 16,000 new primary care providers in the next 5 years in rural areas)
300
Linking payment to quality outcomes in hospitals
What is October 2012? (Financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality of care beginning with measures relating to heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and infection rates)
400
Many Americans will be able to get health insurance through this program, but not all States are cooperating.
What is Medicaid expansion? (States are now able to receive federal matching funds for covering more families. Starting in 2014, any person or family at 133% of poverty level will be eligible to enroll.)
400
These are at least 2 components of the $15B prevention and public health fund to keep Americans healthy.
What is? Smoking cessation Combating obesity Nutrition and physical activity (like Let's Move) Expands immunization Employer participation in wellness programs
400
New tools, screening procedures and money into government oversight agencies will save money and prevent this from occurring in Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP programs
What is fraud?
400
The MFP(money follows the person) program received $4.3B in new funds to expand this service.
What is supporting Medicaid beneficiaries to move into their own homes or other community settings. (Strengthening Community Living)
400
Paying physicians based on value not volume
What is 2015? (Ties physician payments to quality of care they provide)
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