So far the billion dollars in funds are being spent in these categories.
Funding Category
Health Workforce $503,257,248
Community-based Prevention $208,585,809
Maternal and Child Health $116,312,534
Market Reform $94,788,294
Health Centers $52,282,684
Medicare $29,957,268
Long-Term Care $23,724,075
Total $1,028,907,912
The parts of the Affordable Care Act that are specially asking for states to send in grants are Title III Improving the quality and efficiency of health care. Part III of Title III -- Encouraging Development of New Patient Care Models
Sec. 3021. Establishment of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS. Establishes within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. The purpose of the Center will be to research, develop, test, and expand innovative payment and delivery arrangements to improve the quality and reduce the cost of care provided to patients in each program. Dedicated funding is provided to allow for testing of models that require benefits not currently covered by Medicare. Successful models can be expanded nationally.
Sec. 3022. Medicare shared-savings program. Rewards Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that take responsibility for the costs and quality of care received by their patient panel over time. ACOs can include groups of health-care providers (including physician groups, hospitals, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants, and others). ACOs that meet quality-of-care targets and reduce the costs of their patients relative to a spending benchmark are rewarded with a share of the savings they achieve for the Medicare program.
This part of the Act is encouraging the Nurse Practitioners, Physician's Assistants, and therapists to create their innovative models.
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