Physicians: 5 Things to Expect Due to the Rollout of PPACA

In a KevinMD blog post, Bob Doherty, senior vice president of governmental affairs and public policy at the American College of Physicians, discusses five things that physicians should be prepared for as a result of the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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Here are the five things to expect:

 

1. There will be more Medicaid patients, and many of them won’t have a personal physician, and so will be looking for a physician who will agree to see them.  

 

2. Patients who select silver and bronze plans will have substantial cost-sharing requirements.

 

3. The prescriptions that physicians order for their patients may not be on the formulary exchange plan that their patients have chosen.

 

4. Physicians or their hospitals may not be in the network of the exchange plan the patient chooses.

 

5. Some patients may think they successfully signed up for insurance but their insurance company doesn’t know it.

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