Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An Act prohibiting a health plan from establishing lifetime limits or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary after January 1, 2014. It permits a restricted annual limit for plan years beginning prior to January 1, 2014. It provides that a health plan shall not be prevented from placing annual or lifetime per-beneficiary limits on covered benefits. The Act sets up a competitive health insurance market.
| Descriptor ID |
D058991
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.576.343.918 N03.706.615.806
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Health Care Reform Act
- Obamacare
- Public Law 111-148
- Public Law 111 148
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Acts, Affordable Care (ACA)
- Care Act, Affordable (ACA)
- Affordable Care Act
- Act, Affordable Care
- Acts, Affordable Care
- Affordable Care Acts
- Care Act, Affordable
- Care Acts, Affordable
- PL 111-148
- 111-148, PL
- PL 111 148
- PL111-148
- PL111 148
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" by people in Profiles.
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Al-Amin M, Schiaffino MK, Park S, Harman J. Sustained Hospital Performance on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey Measures: What Are the Determinants? J Healthc Manag. 2018 Jan/Feb; 63(1):15-28.