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Many people
across the state are working to proactively shape the future of our
health system including undertaking important activities to improve the
health payment system, strategically plan for
our
future health workforce, implementing statewide
use of health information technology and
increasing the number of Arkansans with health
care coverage.
You can find more
information here.
A vision for a better
Arkansas Health System has been developed and
serves as a guide for this work.
Click here
to watch a short video depicting this vision.
The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act
provides both opportunities and challenges for
Arkansas and the state's Health System
Improvement efforts. ACHI has prodcuded a
series of issue brief
and fact sheets to provide an
overview of the implications of various aspects
of the federal health care law.
Increasing
Health Insurance Coverage for Arkansans
With one of the lowest median household incomes in the country, Arkansas stands to benefit significantly from
federal funds set aside in the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act to help
provide hard-workling, low-income families with
the security of quality health coverage. Read more in
Expanding Health Care Coverage for Arkansans: The Facts
and
Arkansas Surgeon General's Brief: Importance of Medicaid
Expansion through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Individual fact sheets providing insurance coverage information and impact for each
county
in Arkansas are also available.
Independent Analysis
by Rand Corporation Shows Economic Impact of the
Federal Health Care Law
January 3, 2012 - An independent study commissioned by the Arkansas
Center for Health Improvement (ACHI) and conducted by the RAND
Corporation helps answer questions of how implementation of the
federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact
Arkansas and her economy. Read
the full news release.
Read the final
RAND Report. For more information on the Rand Corporation visit
www.rand.org
Introduction of HB
1143: The Health Care Independence Act of 2013
Posters used by bill sponsors to introduce HB
1143 on April 8, 2013:
Changes in Medicaid Enrollment
Negative Impact of ACA Revenue
Passage of the Health Care Independence Act
will not only save more than 1,000 lives each
year due to increased health care coverage, it
will also mitigate the negative impact of
reduced revenue and increased taxes imposed by
the ACA. Read more in
Options for Extending Health Care
Coverage to Low-Income Arkansans, a
comparison fact sheet produced by ACHI.
Other Resources:
Improving Health Coverage for Arkansas's
Low-income Families
(overview fact sheet)
Arkansas "Patchwork Quilt" of Health Insurance
Distribution - Before and After
The Economic Impact of the Affordable Care Act
in Arkansas
(overview fact sheet)
Arkansas Health Insurance Coverage in 2011 (age
18-64)
by FPL
(charts)
Distribution
of Uninsured Arkansans by FPL and Sliding-Scale
Subsidies
(charts)
Uninsured Hospitalized Adults in Arkansas
(fact sheet and map)
The Economic Impact of the Affordable Care Act
on Arkansas - per capita by county
(fact sheet and map)
Medicaid Income Eligibility Limits as a Percent
of FPL
(chart)
Jackson Hewitt Report -
The Supreme Court’s ACA Decision and Its Hidden
Surprise for Employers Without Medicaid
Expansion, Employers Face Higher Tax Penalties
Under ACA
Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative (APII)
Click here for
more information and links
News
Are there enough doctors in Arkansas?
ACHI
releases report shedding new light on
availability of primary and specialty health
care in Arkansas.
Read
the Report,
appendices are available here.
To read the
press release,
click here.
Related
Issue Briefs
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