Health Reform Resources

Proposed Regulations Related to Health Reform - NACCHO Comments

Overview of Affordable Care Act (Powerpoint)

Public Health Aspects of Affordable Care Act (Powerpoint)

Medicaid Changes in Health Reform Webinar - PowerPoint Slides, Audio Recording 

NACCHO Recommendations for Health Reform Implementation

NACCHO White Paper on Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: How Will Health Reform Affect Local Health Departments?

Press Release - NACCHO Celebrates Prevention and Wellness in Health Reform

Public Agency Community Health Centers: An Opportunity for Local Health Departments 

Community Health Assessment

Summary of Public Health Provisions

Comments and Recommendations for National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Internal Revenue Service

National Prevention Council 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Labor

The White House 

Associations and Public Advocacy Groups

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

The Council of State Governments

National Association of Community Health Centers

National Association of Counties

National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors

National Indian Health Board

National Coalition on Health Care

National Conference of State Legislatures

National Governors Association

National League of Cities

National Public Health Information Coalition

The United States Conference of Mayors

Congress

Congressional Budget Office

Government Accountability Office

Senate Democratic Policy Committee

Text of Affordable Care Act as Passed by Congress

Foundations and Private Advocacy Groups

Alliance for Health Reform 

AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)

America's Health Insurance Plans

Blue Cross Foundation

Commonwealth Fund

Families USA

Health Reform GPS - A partnership of RWJF and George Washington University 

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

National Federation for Independent Business (NFIB) 

Premier Health Alliance  

The Prevention Institute  

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Trust for America's Health

News and Publications

Health Affairs

The New York Times Health Reform Site

The Washington Post Health Reform Site  

Think Tanks

Brookings Engelberg Center for Health Reform

Center for American Progress

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Center for Studying Health System Change

New America Foundation

Urban Institute

Brookings - Accountable Care Organizations: A Framework for Evaluating Proposed Rules

Center for American Progress - Achieving Accountable and Affordable Care

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Pioneer ACOs Announced

The Commonwealth Fund - High Performance Accountable Care: Building on Success and Learning from Experience

Health Affairs (January 2011; Volume 30, Issue 1) - Building Regulatory and Operational Flexibility into Accountable Care Organizations and 'Shared Savings' 

Health and Human Services - What Providers Need to Know: Accountable Care Organizations

Health and Human Services - What Patients Need to Know About Accountable Care Organizations 

Health Reform Watch - A Guide to Accountable Care Organizations and Their Role in the Senate's Health Reform Bill 

Kaiser Family Foundation - Panel video and podcast on Accountable Care Organizations: A New Paradigm for Health Care Delivery? 

Kaiser Health News - FAQ on ACOS: Accountable Care Organizations, Explained 

National Institute for Health Care Reform - Lessons from the Field: Making Accountable Care Organizations Real  

PBS - Accountable Care Organizations in Health Reform Decoded

Health and Human Services - Affordable Care Act's New Rules on Preventive Care

Health and Human Services - Access to Preventive Services for Women

Kaiser Family Foundation - Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act

National Association of Community Health Centers - Partnerships between Federally Qualified Health Centers and Local Health Departments (Guidebook)

NACCHO - Public Agency Community Health Centers: An Opportunity for Local Health Departments

Blue Cross Foundation - Implementing a Successful Public Education & Marketing Campaign to Promote State Health Insurance Exchanges  

Blue Cross Foundation - Lessons from the Implementation of Massachusetts Health Reform

The California Legislative Analyst's Office - The PPACA: An Overview of Its Potential Impact on State Health Programs

Campaign for Better Care - Know the Issues

Health Care and You Coalition

Health and Human Services - Fact Sheet: The Affordable Care Act's New Patient's Bill of Rights

Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Reform Law Summary

Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Reform on Main Street

Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Reform Subsidy Calculator

Responsible Reform for the Middle Class - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Section-by-Section Analysis

Alliance for Health Reform - Webcast: The New Health Reform Law and Young Adults

The Commonwealth Fund - Rite of Passage: Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act of 2010

Families USA - Health Coverage for Young Adults

Health and Human Services - Dependent Coverage of Children Who Have Not Attained Age 26 

Health and Human Services - Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act

Kaiser Family Foundation - How Will Health Reform Impact Young Adults

Kaiser Family Foundation - Questions about the Extension of Dependent Coverage to Age 26

The White House - More Support for Young Adults

Commonwealth Fund - Integrating Care for Dual Eligibles

Families USA - A Guide for Advocates: State Demonstrations to Integrate Medicare and Medicaid

Kaiser Family Foundation - Where Does the Burden Lie?

Kaiser Family Foundation - Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries

Kaiser Family Foundation - The Role of Medicare for the People Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid

State of Oregon - Dual Eligibles: Integrating Medicare and Medicaid

Department of Labor - FAQs on Grandfather Plan Regulations

Families USA - Grandfathered Plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Health and Human Services - Keeping the Plan You Have: The Affordable Care Act and "Grandfathered" Health Plans

Health and Human Services - Regulation on "Grandfathered Health Plans"

Kaiser Family Foundation - Fact Sheet on Grandfathered Health Plans

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - "Grandfathered" Health Plans

Center for Medicare Advocacy - Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps African Americans

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps American Indians and Alaska Natives

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps Asian Americans

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps Latinos

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders

Families USA - Moving Toward Health Equity: Health Reform Creates a Foundation for Eliminating Disparities

Health and Human Services - Report on Minority Health Activities

Health and Human Services - Final Data Collection Standards

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies - The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States

Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Reform and Communities of Color: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Kaiser Family Foundation - HHS' Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities

Kaiser Family Foundation - What Might Health Reform Mean for Women of Color?

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors - Health Equity Resources

National Women's Law Center - Making the Grade on Women's Health

Premier Healthcare Alliance - Side-by-Side Comparison of Disparity Provisions in Healthcare Reform Legislation

Premier Healthcare Alliance - Timeline on Disparities Provisions

eHealth Initiative (eHI)

Health and Human Services - Health Information Technology: Promises and Challenges for Disease Prevention & Control

The National Association of Health Data Organizations

The National Association of Public Health Information Technology (NAPHIT)

The National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems

The Public Health Data Standards Consortium

Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)

The Commonwealth Fund - Health Insurance Exchanges and the Affordable Care Act: Key Policy Issues

Deloitte - Health Insurance Exchanges - A Strategic Perspective

Families USA - Implementing Health Insurance Exchanges: Options for Governance and Oversight

Health and Human Services - Affordable Insurance Exchanges

Health and Human Services - Proposal on Essential Health Benefits

Health Reform GPS - Health Insurance Exchanges Update

Kaiser Family Foundation - Premium Subsidy Calculator (displays individual subsidy levels that will be available on exchanges)

Kaiser Family Foundation - What are Health Insurance Exchanges? 

Kaiser Family Foundation - State Exchange Monitor

National Governors Association - State-Based Health Insurance Exchanges

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -Federally-Facilitated Exchanges and the Continuum of State Options

NACCHO - Comments on IRS Regulations for Non-Profit Hospitals

NACCHO - Community Needs Assessment

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - Medicaid: Lifeline for Children and Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicaid Prescription Drugs under the Affordable Care Act

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - New Option for Coverage of Individuals under Medicaid

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Primer on How to Use Medicaid to Assist Persons who are Homeless to Access Medical, Behavioral Health, and Support Services

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid-Eligible Adults

Families USA - Early Medicaid Expansions under Health Reform

Families USA - Expanded Spousal Impoverishment Protection in Medicaid

Families USA - How Health Reform Helps Low-Income Children

Families USA - Maintenance of Effort Requirements Under Health Reform

Health and Human Services - HHS Offers New Tools to Help States Lower Medicaid Costs

Kaiser Family Foundation - Ensuring Access to Care in Medicaid Under Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Expanding Coverage to Adults through Medicaid under Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Childless Adults under Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Explaining Health Reform: Benefits and Cost-Sharing for Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries

Kaiser Family Foundation - Explaining Health Reform: Eligibility and Enrollment Processes for Medicaid, CHIP and Subsidies in the Exchange

Kaiser Family Foundation - Financing New Medicaid Coverage Under Health Reform: The Role of the Federal Government and States

Kaiser Family Foundation - Health Reform Issues: Key Issues about State Financing and Medicaid

Kaiser Family Foundation - The Health Reform Law and Medicaid (video briefing)

Kaiser Family Foundation - Key Questions About Medicaid and its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Provisions in the New Health Reform Law

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicaid and CHIP Coverage in an Era of Recession and Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform: National and State-by-State Results for Adults at or Below 133% FPL

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports: Key Changes in the Health Reform Law

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicaid Policy Options for Meeting the Needs of Adults with Mental Illness under the Affordable Care Act

Kaiser Family Foundation - Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Perspectives on Strengthening Medicaid's Reach under Health Care Reform

National Governors Association - Medicaid and State Budgets

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Risk Assessment in Medicare

Center for Medicare Advocacy - Health Care Reform and Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries

Center for Medicare Advocacy - Keeping Medicare and Medicaid Strong?

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicare and the New Health Law

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Strengthening Medicare: Better Health, Better Care, Lower Costs

The Commonwealth Fund - Medicare Advantage in the Era of Health Reform

Families USA - An Advocate's Guide to the New Annual Wellness Visit Benefit in Medicare

Families USA - An Advocate's Guide to the New Preventive Services Benefit in Medicare

Families USA - Helping People with Medicare

Families USA - Medicare's New Preventive Care Benefit: What It Means for You

Families USA - Medicare's New Wellness Visit: What It Means for You

Kaiser Family Foundation - Explaining Health Reform: Key Changes in the Medicare Advantage Program

Kaiser Family Foundation - Explaining Health Reform: Medicare and the New Independent Payment Advisory Board

Kaiser Family Foundation - The Independent Payment Advisory Board: A New Approach to Controlling Medicare Spending

Kaiser Family Foundation - Quality Ratings of Medicare Advantage Plans: Key Changes in the Health Reform Law and 2010 Enrollment Data

Kaiser Family Foundation - Raising the Age of Medicare Eligibility: A Fresh Look Following Implementation of Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation - Summary of Key changes to Medicare in 2010 Health Reform Law

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Application Guidance

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Guidance: Medicare Prescription Drug Appeals & Grievances

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Medicare Advantage/Part D Contract and Enrollment Data

Families USA - An Advocate's Guide to the Medicare Coverage Gap Discount Program

Families USA - Making the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) Work

Kaiser Family Foundation - Explaining Health Care Reform: Key Changes to the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Coverage Gap

Kaiser Family Foundation - Income-Relating Medicare Part B and Part D Premiums: How Many Medicare Beneficiaries Will Be Affected?

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Program: Experience to Date and Policy Issues for Consideration

Kaiser Family Foundation - Medicare Part D Spotlight: Part D Plan Availability in 2011 and Key Changes Since 2006

ASTHO - Public Health: An Essential Component of Health Reform

ASTHO - Public Health Workforce Provisions in PPACA

Biotechnology Industry Organization - Healthcare Reform Law Could Boost Vaccination Rates

Campos-Outcalt, Doug - Local Public Health and Physicians: Effective Collaboration

Health and Human Services - ACA's Prevention and Public Health Fund in Your State

Health and Human Services - Affordable Care Act: Laying the Foundation for Prevention

Health and Human Services - Background: The Affordable Care Act's New Rules on Preventive Care

Health and Human Services - Fact Sheet: Creating Jobs and Increasing the Number of Primary Care Providers

Health and Human Services - National Prevention Strategy

Health and Human Services - Prevention and Public Health Fund: Community Transformation Grants to Reduce Chronic Disease

Health and Human Services - Prevention through Healthcare: CDC Strategic Approaches to Navigating Change in Health Care

Health and Human Services - Preventive Care and Services

The Milken Institute - Health Reform: The Role of Medical Research and Prevention

NACCHO - Health Reform and Local Health Departments Webinar

NACCHO - Public Health Funding in Final Health Reform Bill

NACCHO - How Will Health Reform Affect Local Health Departments?

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors - HHS Initiative: Communities Putting Prevention to Work

National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council - 2010 Annual Status Report

Prevention Institute - Next Steps for Health Reform: Recommendations for Prevention and Wellness Fund

Prevention Institute - Reforming Our Health System

Trust for America's Health - The Health Reform Law and Prevention

The Commonwealth Fund - Early Implementation of Pre-Existing Condition Plans: Providing an Interim Safety Net for the Uninsurable

Congressional Budget Office - Estimate of High-Risk Pool Cost

Health and Human Services - Fact Sheet

Health and Human Services - Solicitation for State Proposals to Operate Qualified High-Risk Pools

Health and Human Services - Temporary High-Risk Pool Program

Kaiser Family Foundation - Issues for Structuring Interim High-Risk Pools

Kaiser Family Foundation - Questions about the Temporary High-Risk Pool

National Conference of State Legislatures - Coverage of Uninsurable Pre-Existing Conditions: State and Federal High-Risk Pools

National Conference of State Legislatures - Health Reform: What Legislators Need to Know about High-Risk Pools

National Institute for Health Care Reform - Health Coverage for the High-Risk Uninsured: Policy Options for Design of the Temporary High-Risk Pool

Commonwealth Fund - Timelines for Health Reform Implementation

Health and Human Services - Timeline: What's Changing and When

House Ways and Means Committee - Health Insurance Reform At a Glance Implementation Timeline 

Kaiser Family Foundation - Implementation Timeline

Trust for America's Health - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Prevention and Health Implementation Timeline

The White House - The Affordable Care Act: Implementation Timeline