Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Including Reconciliation Act Impact

The One Resource That Explains EVERY Provision of the Single Most Sweeping Piece of Legislation in 50 Years!

CCH's Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Including Reconciliation Act Impact provides employers, legal, legislative, health, and insurance professionals with comprehensive explanation and analysis of every aspect of health care reform legislation. The information is crucial, current, and reliable and offers complete, clear and practical guidance on every provision.

This is one of the most high-impact pieces of legislation passed in decades. Taken together, the laws are over 2,800 pages long. Many hundreds of changes are made to existing laws – over 600 changes to the Social Security Act alone (which contains all of the Medicare and Medicaid law), including almost 50 newly added provisions. Other laws affected include the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and even the Fair Labor Standards Act, among others.

Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Including Reconciliation Act Impact include contains almost 500 expert explanations telling you what all those law changes mean.

Only Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Including Reconciliation Act Impact includes:

• An editorially enhanced version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that integrates in place changes made to it by the Reconciliation Act of 2010 and Title X amendments
• Text of the Joint Committee on Taxation report that provides background information on the revenue-related provisions of the laws
• Finding devices to help navigate between analysis and official text
• Caution notes

The legislation contains the most significant health care changes in decades. Topics covered include the following:

For employers:

• Enhanced employer responsibility
• Insurance market reforms
• Health insurance exchanges
• Individual responsibility mandate

For health providers and beneficiaries:

• Expanded eligibility rules for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program
• Reimbursement changes for physicians and hospitals to focus on primary and preventive care
• Reimbursement changes for hospitals to increase coverage in rural areas
• Expansion of existing value-based purchasing and quality programs

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With your purchase of the book, you'll receive access to a special website that gives you access to SSA, ERISA, and IRC provisions amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Reconciliation Act of 2010, as well as other valuable Health Care Reform information and resources. Full text of both Acts will also be provided on this exclusive website.

• EXPLANATION
  • Insurance Market Reforms
  • Coverage Choices
  • Affordability of Coverage
  • Coverage Responsibilities
  • Public Programs: Medicaid & CHIP
  • Maternal and Child Health Services
  • Health Care Quality Improvement
  • Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers
  • Rural Protections
  • Medicare Payment Accuracy Improvements
  • Provisions Relating to Medicare Part C
  • Medicare Part D Improvements
  • Medicare Sustainability
  • Disease Prevention and Wellness
  • Health Care Workforce Improvements
  • Medicare and Medicaid Transparency and Enforcement
  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
  • Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP Program Integrity
  • Elder Justice Act
  • Access to Innovative Medical Therapies
  • CLASS Act
  • Revenue Provisions
  • Indian Health Care Act
  • Miscellaneous Provisions
• LAW
  • Text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Text of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
  • Text of Executive Order 13535: Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• COMMITTEE REPORTS
  • Technical Explanation of the Revenue Provisions of the "Reconciliation Act of 2010,"as Amended, in Combination with the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (JCX-18-10)
• SPECIAL TABLES
  • Effective Dates Table
    • Social Security Act Sections
    • Employee Retirement Income Security Act Sections
    • Internal Revenue Code Sections
  • Other Tables
    • Social Security Act Sections to CCH Explanations
    • Employee Retirement Income Security Act Sections to CCH Explanations
    • Internal Revenue Code Sections to CCH Explanations
    • Social Security Act Sections Added, Amended or Repealed
    • ERISA Sections Added, Amended or Repealed Internal Revenue Code Sections Added, Amended or Repealed
    • Act Sections Amending Social Security
    • Act Sections Act Sections Amending Employee Retirement Income Security Act Sections
    • Act Sections Amending Internal Revenue Code Sections