Understanding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

By 2014, the Affordable Care Act will give millions of Americans access to reliable, high quality medical care, while advancing programs to hold costs in check.  Benefits of the law include: insurance subsidies for consumers; transparent Exchanges to shop for insurance; new rules protecting consumers from insurance abuses; increased Medicare payments for physicians; and more.  Below you will find resources to help you better understand the law, as well valuable resources to provide directly to patients.
To watch our archived series of five brief webinars on how the ACA affects small business, women, seniors, young adults, and physicians, click here.
To download free waiting room posters and handouts, click here.

For Physicians

• NEW! A Quick Guide for Physicians to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
• National Grand Rounds — View Archived Webcast of the Event!
  Creating a Patient-Centered Accountable Care Organization:
  The One You would Recommend to Your Mother
• Rules Issued March 31 – Medicare Shared Savings Program:
  Accountable Care Organizations (CMS-1345-P)
• Fact Sheets from the Department of Health & Human Services
  What Providers Need to Know:  Accountable Care Organizations (ACO),
  and links to more…
• ACA Penalties for Employers Who Do Not Offer Affordable Coverage
• The New Health Law: Summary of Key Provisions (downloadable handout)
• Implementation Timeline
  (an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years)
• Free Educational Posters for Waiting Rooms
• Anatomy of Health Care Reform
• History of Health Reform in the US

Useful Websites:

• Understand the New Law (www.HealthCare.gov)
• State-by-State Fact Sheets on Benefits to Your Community (www.WhiteHouse.gov)
• Spanish-Language information about the New Health Law
• www.healthreformgps.org
• http://healthreform.kff.org/timeline.aspx

For Patients

Handouts:

• Overview of the Affordable Care Act (NPA Fdn)
• Children and Young Adults Win with the Affordable Care Act (NPA Fdn)
• Seniors Win with the Affordable Care Act (NPA Fdn)
• Women Win with the Affordable Care Act (NPA Fdn)
• Small Business Wins with the Affordable Care Act (NPA Fdn)
  click here for 2-page overview — click here for 1-page summary
• NEW! ACA Penalties for Employers Who Do Not Offer Affordable Coverage

Useful Websites:

• Understand the New Law (www.HealthCare.gov)
• AARP Health Law Guide
• State-by-State Fact Sheets on Benefits to Your Community (www.WhiteHouse.gov)
• Spanish-Language information about the New Health Law
• HealthCareandYou
• Health Reform and You (Kaiser Health News)
• Health Reform Subsidy Calculator (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Short Video: Jonathan Gruber’s “Illustrating the Success of Health Reform”