TechCrunch January 6, 2017
Enmi Kendall (@healthyvc), Anya Schiess (@healthyvc)

Donald Trump’s election has left many wary of how he’ll respond to a campaign promise to dismantle Obamacare. It seems that select aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, will remain intact. Likely to remain are provisions that make it illegal for insurers to deny a patient’s pre-existing medical conditions and enable children to stay on their parents’ insurance plans through age 26.

While not part of the ACA, structural innovations designed to control cost, such as the shift to value-based care (VBC), a new way of paying doctors and hospitals, will likely continue (more on this later). The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may cancel their timeline for this shift, slowing momentum. However, private insurance...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), Analytics, Apps, ASC, Big Data, CMS, Employer, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, Investments, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Radiology, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Retail care, Self-insured, Specialist care, Telehealth, Urgent care, Value Based, Wearables
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