Health care reform legislation was passed in 2010 in the form of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 Collectively, these laws will have a profound impact on healthcare providers and suppliers, employers, healthcare insurers, state governments and individuals. Some of the provisions of health care reform legislation were effective immediately or became effective shortly after enactment. Many of the provisions of the health care reform legislation, however, will not take effect for several years. In addition, the full scope of the impact of health care reform will not be fully known until the issuance of the implementing regulations.  

The law is broad in scope. Health care reform legislation includes incentives offered to employers to provide health insurance to their employees, expansion of the eligibility requirements for Medicaid coverage, high-risk pools to allow individuals with pre-existing conditions to acquire health insurance (and, ultimately, a provision prohibiting health care insurers from excluding individuals with pre-existing conditions from coverage), funds for demonstration projects and incentives for medical research aimed at increasing the efficiency of the delivery of healthcare services, provisions intended to curb fraud, waste and abuse in the healthcare system, and a number of tax provisions intended to generate revenue to cover the governmental costs of healthcare reform.

Attorneys from a number of practice areas at Parker Poe are focused on health care reform legislation and its impact on our clients interests. We keep up to date with regulations related to health reform as they are issued and work closely with clients to address the current and future requirements of healthcare reform legislation.

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