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Changes to the Healthcare Industry are Coming Thanks to the Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold ACA's Legality

Published on Wed Jul 18, 2012

How will you and other billers be affected? Review the opinions of these expert billing professionals. Throughout the healthcare industry, people have been abuzz about the United States Supreme Court's June 28 announcement that it had made a decision about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the decision to uphold the constitutionality of the ACA, the Supreme Court also ruled that the requirement that all individuals have health care coverage or face a penalty was a tax, rather than a penalty, and therefore allowable under the Federal taxing authority. So what does the upholding of the ACA mean for the future of your practice? Here's what a few billing experts have to say on how this will affect practices:"Since the U.S. has never had a healthcare law that mandates everyone must have health insurance, I believe it is difficult to know or predict the effects it will [...]
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