Healthcare initiatives to improve care coordination may be funded under which act?

• A. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
• B. The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA)
• C. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• D. Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is where financing for care coordination efforts comes from. The Affordable Care Act directly funds delivery-system reform that promotes coordination, including support for accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, and it established the CMS Innovation Center to pilot and fund models that reward coordinated, high-quality, cost-efficient care. While HIPAA governs privacy, FDASIA addresses FDA safety and innovation, and HITECH provides funding to promote health IT adoption (which can aid coordination), ACA is the primary source that explicitly funds care coordination initiatives through these reform and incentive programs.