Health reform

How will the Affordable Care Act impact employer-sponsored health insurance?

In 2014 Americans are expected to begin purchasing health insurance through newly-created marketplaces. Questions remain about how employers and workers will react when the health insurance marketplace go live. While each state and industry is different, Massachusetts’ experience with its 2006 universal coverage law offers clues as to what we can expect. In the seven years since Massachusetts enacted its law, the number of people covered by insurance through the workplace increased by about 1%, running counter to the rest of the nation, which saw employer-based insurance decline.

PwC's Health Research Institute shares deeper analysis and draws parallels between the 2006 Massachusetts universal coverage law and the Affordable Care Act in our report Massachusetts Experience: Employer-sponsored health insurance post-reform. For additional background read our 2012 report, Health Insurance Exchanges: Long on options, short on time.

Healthcare reform research and findings

PwC continually explores health policy proposals and their implications to the industry. The Affordable Care Act health reform legislation was the result of an evolution of ideas and debates on the complex and far-ranging aspects of access, finance and technology. For a deeper discussion of these issues, please consider these reports.

New opportunities

The Massachusetts Experience: New wave of consolidation for health sector post reform
The Massachusetts Experience: Employer-sponsored health insurance post reform
Health reform re-elected: ACA implementation in tough fiscal times
Medicaid expansion: New patients, new challenges
Health Insurance Exchanges: Long on options, short on time
Health Insurance Exchange Final Rules: Moving ahead to 2014
The future of academic medical centers: Strategies to avoid a margin meltdown
Change the channel: Health insurance exchanges expand choice and competition
The new gold rush: Prospectors are hoping to mine opportunities from the health industry

Health IT

Needles in a haystack: Seeking knowledge with clinical informatics
Old data learns new tricks: Managing patient privacy and security on a new data-sharing playground
Putting patients into "meaningful use"
Designing a health IT backbone for ACOs
Breakthroughs: HIT that enables quality, efficiency and value
Ready or not: On the road to meaningful use of EHRs and health IT

ACOs and hospital / physician alignment

Medicare ACOs and shared savings models
In the land of uncertainty, a map to prepare for the ACO model
From courtship to marriage: A two-part series on physician-hospital alignment
Breakthroughs: The bridge to accountable care organizations (ACOs)

PwC’s Health Reform Industry Specialists

Have a question about how the changes in Washington D.C. may impact you and your business? PwC’s subject matter specialists have been working with clients to answer their questions about the impact and opportunities that are present.

Meet PwC’s Healthcare reform specialists