Healthcare Reform Makes Private Insurers Act Like Medicare, Medicaid

Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a two-part series by Shanna Rogers. The second installment will be published tomorrow on insidePatientFinance.com.

One growing trend emerging from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that the private sector is starting to act more like the public sector.

One of the compromises that enabled healthcare reform to win acceptance in Congress is that private insurers will begin acting more like their public counterparts, namely Medicare. As more of the provisions of the ACA come on line, expect all payors to work more alike rather than different.