ACA Timeline: Key Dates for Providers and Patients

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

No, I won't say where I live except that it is not NC. I went to school there, I don't live there (and would NEVER consider it). I live in one of the states will fully independent NP practice, as I have mentioned many times. That should narrow it down a bit. ;)

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

No, of course it wasn't. I was simply responding to the oft mentioned argument that the ACA is bad because providers will be losing money. We won't.

It is a win-win.

edited to add, that was in response to Jeanette73. The quoter function is not working for me today.

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

This is the bottom line:

  • For any person who comes to a hospital emergency department, "the hospital must provide for an appropriate medical screening examination . . . to determine whether or not an emergency medical condition exists" (see 42 USC 1395dd[a]).[3]
  • If the screening examination reveals an emergency medical condition, the hospital must "stabilize the medical condition" before transferring or discharging the patient.

And for the record, I don't work in an ED, I just see the patients they turn away and in every case (so far) they were right to do so.

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