Explain how the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) creates a right to healthcare? 

Under Medicare pay-for-performance, how might a focus on quality actually result in poor care or poor outcomes?

  What does it mean that Medicare focuses too much on care at the end-of-life? Do you agree or disagree?

  What is a Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and its keys features?

 

 

 Medicare has seen a steady increase and reliance on non-physician practitioners (such as Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants) to treat patients. Explain how Medicare reimburses for their services.