The PPACA

The PPACA is a major concern for hospital leader because these changes will complicate and negatively affect health care workers and their ability to provide care. The PPACA required health care to be more accountable, efficient and more thorough when it comes to managing the care of patients by reduce costs and improve care. This will increase cost and not necessarily improve care. This ia a major concern to hospital leader because it requires them to make changes quickly and effectively. The PPACA relies heavily on mandates, penalties, and bonus reimbursements for compliance with its regulatory standards it looks at hospital performance through metrics. The new pay-for-performance standards will significantly affect hiring and retention of labor. If
These factors combined will threaten access and quality of care. Part of the problem is the overwhelming complexity of implementing the massive law, requiring them to meet new legal requirements The area that need to be improve at Charlesworth Medical Center is the emergency room. I choose this area because medicaid patients use the emergency room at twice the rate of those with private insurance, one reason is that Medicaid recipients are generally unhealthier than the general population. Another is that they have a harder time getting primary care, largely because doctors get paid less for treating Medicaid patients. Many Medicaid patients also have hourly jobs that make it difficult to get to a doctor’s office during working hours, or they don’t have transportation to get there. So they utilize the emergency room has there primary care. If patient stop using emergency rooms as their main source of medical care and develop relationships with doctors by enrolling them in primary care practices, scheduling appointments for them and, in some cases, making sure they get to the doctor’s office. When a patient is discharge from