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.

• Health Insurance Exchanges - Learn how they may impact you:
  • What do they mean to you?
  • Questions and Answers
    
• Key Issues - Get a deeper look at some other important changes:
  • 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
• Accountable Care Organizations - Learn how ACOs can transform patient care and bring greater quality and sustainability to the health care system.