Timeline of the Affordable Health Care Act

Do you ever wonder what the timeline is for the new Affordable Healthcare Act?


Well, here you go!

March 23, 2010 - The Affordable Care Act Becomes Law.

Effective Jan 1, 2010 - Providing Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credits.

April 1, 2010 - Allowing States to Cover More People on Medicaid.

Year of 2010 - Relief for 4 Million Seniors Who Hit the Medicare Prescription Drug “Donut Hole”.

Many Provisions Effective Now - Cracking Down on Health Care Fraud.

June 1, 2010 - Expanding Coverage for Early Retirees.

July 1, 2010 - Providing Access to Insurance for Uninsured Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions.

July 1, 2010 - Putting Information Online.

September 23, 2010

- Extending Coverage for Young Adults.

- Providing Free Preventative Care.

- Prohibiting Insurance Companies from

Rescinding Coverage.

- Appealing Insurance Company Deci-

sions.

- Eliminating Lifetime Limits on Insurance

Coverage.

- Regulating Annual Limits on Insurance

Coverage.

- Prohibiting Denying Coverage of Children Based on Pre-Existing Conditions.

Beginning in 2010 - Holding Insurance Companies Accountable for Unreasonable Rate Hikes.

Effective 2010 - Rebuilding the Primary Care Workforce.

October 2010 - Establishing Consumer Assistance Programs in the States.

Begins 2010 - Preventing Disease and Illness.

Effective 2010 - Strengthening Community Health Centers.

Effective 2010 - Payments for Rural Health Care Providers.

January 1, 2011

- Prescription Drug Discounts.

- Free Preventative Care for Seniors.

- Bringing Down Health Care Premiums.

- Addressing Overpayments to Big Insurance Companies and Strengthening Medicare Advantage.

- Improving Health Care Quality and Effi

ciency.

- Improving Care for Seniors after They

Leave the Hospital.

October 1, 2011

- New Innovations to Bring Down Costs.

- Increasing Access to Services at Home and in the Community.

January 1, 2012 - Encouraging Integrated Health Systems.

March 2012 - Understanding and Fighting Health Disparities.

October 1, 2012

- Reducing Paperwork and Administrative

Costs.

- Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes.

January 1, 2013

- Improving Preventative Health Coverage.

- Increasing Medicaid Payments to Pri

mary Care Doctors.

- Expanded Authority to Bundle Payments.

October 1, 2013 - Additional Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

January 1, 2014

- Establishing Affordable Insurance Ex

changes.

- Promoting Individual Responsibility.

- Ensuring Free Choice.

- Increasing Access to Medicaid.

- Makes Care More Affordable.

- Ensuring Coverage for Individuals Par

ticipating in Clinical Trials.

- Eliminating Annual Limits on Insurance

Coverage.

- No Discrimination Due to Pre-Existing

Conditions or Gender.

- Increasing Small Business Health Insur

ance Tax Credit.

January 1, 2015 - Paying Physicians Based on Value Not Volume.

Source: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/