Journal of Clinical Pathways June, 2017
Abstract: Since its passage in 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has caused widespread disruption in the US health care ecosystem. This has put a huge spotlight on the system’s shortcomings, from inefficiencies of care delivery to extreme variability in quality and patient experience—from region to region, and sometimes within the same facility. The uncertainty has been heightened by recent attempts to repeal the ACA, such as the successful passage of the American Health Care Act of 2017 in the House of Representatives. This...