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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; Other short titles: Kassebaum–Kennedy Act, Kennedy–Kassebaum Act: Long title: An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use ...
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; Long title: An Act to amend Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other ...
At various times during and after ACA debate Obama said, "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan." [ 386 ] [ 387 ] However, in fall 2013 millions of Americans with individual policies received notices that their insurance plans were terminated, [ 388 ] and several million more risked seeing their current ...
The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 [1] (also called the Balanced Budget Refinement Act or BBRA) is a federal law of the United States, enacted in 1999. [2] The BBRA was first introduced into the House as H.R. 3075 on October 14, 1999, by Rep. William M. Thomas (R-CA) with 75 cosponsors.
A number of sources provide lists of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in health care. The terms listed are used in the English language within the healthcare systems and by healthcare professionals of various countries. [3] Examples of terms include BP, COPD, [9] TIMI score, and SOAP. [10] There is no standardised list. [3]
by health care clearinghouses in their internal files to create and process standard transactions and to communicate with health care providers and health plans; by electronic patient record systems to identify treating health care providers in patient medical records;
In 2006 the Tax Relief and Health Care Act (TRHCA) included a provision for a 1.5% incentive payment to eligible providers who successfully submitted quality data to CMS. This provision included a cap on payments. The 2007 Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act extended the program through 2008 and 2009. It also removed the TRHCA payment cap.
Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...