The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 established health insurance exchanges to facilitate the purchase of health insurance by individuals (through individual exchanges) and by small businesses with 2 to 50 full-time equivalent employees (through the Small Business Health Options Program [SHOP]). As of May 28, 2013, 17 states have opted to run their own marketplaces; the rest are either fully or partly run by the federal government. Policies purchased through these marketplaces will be effective on January 1, 2014. Recently, President Barack Obama delayed the implementation of SHOP until 2014.
One of the many measures of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help modernize the nation’s infrastructure was the signing of the Health...
Dr. Daniel Bennett discusses Accountable Care Organizations and how they impact dermatologists.
Despite the many health care reform policies enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, one legislative fix that has beset...
Dermatopathology is as important to the specialty of dermatology and the care of patients with skin disease as is any element of the specialty.
