Five ways your health care will change in 2013

Five ways your health care will change in 2013

The Affordable Care Act’s biggest year is, without a doubt, 2014: That’s when the federal subsidies to purchase health insurance roll out. It’s also when penalties for not buying coverage kick in.

But many of the big changes will start gradually in 2013. They range from increasing payments to Medicaid doctors to upping Medicare taxes to the first open-enrollment period for health insurance exchanges. Here’s a quick guide to what will happen in health care in the next year.