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Published in: Current Diabetes Reports 12/2015

01-12-2015 | Health Care Delivery Systems and Implementation in Diabetes (EB Morton-Eggleston, Section Editor)

Affordable Care Act and Diabetes Mellitus

Authors: Qian Shi, Frank P. Nellans, Lizheng Shi

Published in: Current Diabetes Reports | Issue 12/2015

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Abstract

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential for great impact on U.S. health care, especially for chronic disease patients requiring long-term care and management. The act was designed to improve insurance coverage, health care access, and quality of care for all Americans, which will assist patients with diabetes mellitus in acquiring routine monitoring and diabetes-related complication screening for better health management and outcomes. There is great potential for patients with diabetes to benefit from the new policy mandating health insurance coverage and plan improvement, Medicaid expansion, minimum coverage guarantees, and free preventative care. However, policy variability among states and ACA implementation present challenges to people with diabetes in understanding and optimizing ACA impact. This paper aims to select the most influential components of the ACA as relates to people with diabetes and discuss how the ACA may improve health care for this vulnerable population.
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Metadata
Title
Affordable Care Act and Diabetes Mellitus
Authors
Qian Shi
Frank P. Nellans
Lizheng Shi
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Diabetes Reports / Issue 12/2015
Print ISSN: 1534-4827
Electronic ISSN: 1539-0829
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-015-0679-1

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