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Goals and Learning Outcomes

The legislative enactment of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been the single most significant healthcare policy reform in the U.S. since the inception of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ACA’s initial goals were robust and have grown in systemic healthcare aim since. However, the ACA is not without its growing pains, including rising plan costs and declining coverage among many states (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS], 2022a). 

The ACA serves to provide quality cost-effective care while augmenting growing healthcare disparities and broader coverage for all Americans. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic employment layoffs and loss of health insurance, the number of ACA-covered Americans has soared to an estimated 35.8 million, with 22 million enrolled in ACA-covered Medicare expansion plans (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation [KFF], 2017; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2022b). With growing patient enrollment in ACA plans, nurses must be informed healthcare leaders, having the knowledge to assist patients about ACA, how it works, and its impact on patient care.


After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Recall the overarching historical context leading to the ACA improvements, reforms, and key aims.
  • Review the differences in ACA vs. employer plans, coverage, enrollment process, and types of plans.
  • Identify the larger systemic aims and legislative nursing and patient implications of ACA.

Course Termination Date: Not yet determined

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/24

Course Originally Released On: 11/01/22

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Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

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Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.