What I Need to Know as a Physician or Health Care Professional

Whether you’re a doctor, nurse or other health care professional, you need to know how the health care reform law is affecting you and your patients. The informational resources available through this page can help you learn more about how health care benefits are changing because of the law and how broader health system changes still to come may affect you.

• Questions and Answers - For a deeper look at the specific changes, read our Q&As organized by topic.
  • Administrative simplification
  • Preventive care
  • Pre-existing conditions
  • Choice of providers
  • Clinical trials
    
• Tools - Access informational tools that can help you get certain questions answered.
  
  • Provider Payment Estimator – The Provider Payment Estimator can help you  help your patients learn what their cost sharing will be under their plan
    
• Timeline 
  
  • Scan our Health Care Reform Timeline to get a brief look at what health care changes will occur over the next decade under the law.
  • Review recent or imminent health reform changes on our new “2012 page”
    
• Accountable Care Organizations - Learn how ACOs can transform patient care and bring greater quality and sustainability to the health care system.