Healthcare Policy and Economics

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Introduction
ACA (Affordable Care Act) is an extensive health care rectification law which was
validated and signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 (Manchikanti, Helm, Benyamin &
Hirsch, 2017). It is also called Obamacare which minimizes the amount of uncompensated care
the average United States’ family pays for demanding everybody to have health insurance. In
establishing achievements for healthcare consortium to offer better care at a reduced price, states,
health frameworks, and health designs hold on looking for systems to oversee emergency room
application.
The consumer’s visitation operation is driven by many variables among them the
significance of the therapeutic state, availability, the observed necessity along with accessibility
of emergency room and other lingering matter and doctor commendations to the emergency
room. The paper explains the procedures that take place throughout a normal hospitalization or
emergency department visit for a patient under the Affordable Care Act and address the
differences with the same encounter from before the Affordable Care Act was passed into law.
Describe the processes that take place during a typical hospitalization or emergency
department visit for a consumer under the ACA. From admission to discharge, including
aftercare, rehab, and acquisition of medications; address the differences, with the same
experience from before the ACA was passed into law?
Throughout an emergency visit or normal hospitalization, a patient is needed to pass
some procedures under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). When a patient enters at the health
facility, he or she is directed to an emergency room where he or she is evaluated and then
stabilized (Metchnikoff, Naughton & Periyakoil, 2018). After being examined and preserved, the

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patient can be directed to four processes which include the inpatient care, outpatient care,
observation status along with outpatient and inpatient rehab.
Under the process of inpatient care, the consumer is anticipated to be accepted in the
medical office and be conceded in the healthcare facility. Here, the outlay can be divided into
two classes: the charge of the healthcare facility and the expenses connected to the healthcare
professional (Nikpay, Buchmueller & Levy, 2016). Usually, the inpatient services charges are
handled either per day or per stay basis. As many people gain scope under various ACA
arrangements, health frameworks may need to deliberate on placing or making joint operations
with Urgent Care Centers (UCCs). This will help in facilitating their emergency room donations,
cut unpaid care charges and desist from putting exorbitant pressure on unnatural assets, for
instance, nurses and critical care professionals.
Extensive health frameworks like HCA and Tenet have obtained some UCCs in the
previous years, and their opinions might start to pay off. In 2015, the HCA had more than one
million UCC arrangements and a five hundred percent rise than the previous year. Discovering
the new and frequently multipart web of scope highpoints, overheads and benefits are one of the
perpetual issues looked by the newly insured (Nikpay, Buchmueller & Levy, 2016). Hence, few
health frameworks are practicing revolutions to manage consumers to the correct care setting.
For example, the California-based Sutter health along with Alameda health system
commenced operating with developed automation and analysis to determine visitation of
emergency room patients (Scheffler, 2019). They directed the patients to more nice care
sceneries via extended directions as well as management undertakings. Furthermore, health
frameworks are opening to place assets into amiable access call efforts with everyday moment
way to appropriate care environments.