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1. The Affordable Care Act: Variability by State
The Affordable Care Act: Variability by StateThe Affordable Care Act: Variability by StateThe
costs of implementing provisions called for under the PPACA, and the benefits from the
legislation, vary from one state to another. The degree to which your health care
organization must adhere to guidelines of the ACA may affect the extent of the type of health
care services offered, the types of patients served by your facility, and how health care costs
are maintained. As a current or future health care executive, you must consider how to
balance operations of your health care organization within the context of the ACA and in
providing high-quality, low-cost health care.For this Discussion, review the resources for
this week. Search for the cost of implementing the ACA for a health care organization in
your state. Reflect on the benefits of implementing the ACA for a health care organization in
your state (Indiana). How might your health care organization, or one with which you are
familiar, be affected by ACA mandates?Post a description of the costs of implementing ACA
provisions in your state (Indiana). Then, explain the benefits of the ACA in your state.
Explain how the costs and benefits of the ACA may impact you as a current or future health
care executive and your health care organization or one with which you are familiar. Be
specific and provide examples.Part 2:Population Health and the Affordable Care ActEarlier
in this course you examined how health care organizations are beginning to look at value-
based care, which often encompasses care across the continuum of health care services. You
also considered how this was associated with new payment methodologies. Care across the
continuum links to population health, which describes the outcomes of the health of the
population, and to new payment methods through the ACA.As a health care executive for a
hospital, you have been responsible for caring for the patient in your hospital bed. In the
last couple of years, your role has likely expanded to include determining how to keep
patients from being re-hospitalized. With the implementation of the ACA, your role is
expanding further to encompass population health.For this Discussion, review the
resources for this week and reflect on your role as a health care executive in implementing
ACA provisions related to population health strategies. Reflect on the considerations you
should keep in mind to fully comply with and enact population health strategies in light of
ACA legislation.Post an explanation of how you as a hospital chief executive officer (CEO)
might create a population health strategy based on ACA foci. Be specific and provide
examples.Resources Providedhttps://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-
facts/https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2015/09/16/121094/
2014-census-data-confirm-dramatic-impact-of-the-affordable-care-

2. act/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/10/13/the-cost-of-
obamacare-varies-wildly-by-state/https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/collections/reform-
by-the-numbers.htmlhttps://www-sciencedirect-
com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0140673614602592?via%3Dihubhttps:/
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com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0140673614602592?via%3Dihubhttps:/
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