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Disparities Reduction and Minority Health Improvement Under the ACA
- In: LegalNotes
- By: Cartwright-Smith L, Rosenbaum S, and Mehta D
- Publisher: Aligning Forces for Quality
- Published: 3/1/2011
This brief developed by the Legal Barriers team reviews provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address the issue of disparities reduction.
LegalNotes is an online Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) publication that provides readers with short, readable summaries of developments in the law that collectively shape the broader legal environment for efforts to improve quality, reduce health care disparities, and improve the transparency of price and quality information.
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