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, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.521.576.343.918 N03.706.615.806
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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financing, Organized [N03.219.521]
Insurance [N03.219.521.576]
Insurance, Health [N03.219.521.576.343]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [N03.219.521.576.343.918]
Social Control, Formal [N03.706]
Legislation as Topic [N03.706.615]
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [N03.706.615.806]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Health Insurance Exchanges

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Bar chart showing 29 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2012	1	1	2
2013	3	1	4
2014	2	1	3
2015	1	4	5
2016	0	2	2
2017	3	3	6
2018	1	1	2
2019	2	1	3
2021	0	2	2

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Horner-Johnson W, Lindner S, Levy A, Hall J, Kurth N, Garcia E, Frame A, Phillips K, Momany E, Lurie M, Shin Y, Lauer E, Kunte P, Silverstein R, Okoro C, McDermott S. Time trends in emergency department use among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Disabil Health J. 2022 04; 15(2):101225.

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Pinals DA, Hovermale L, Mauch D, Anacker L. Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Mental Health System: Part 2. Policy and Systems Considerations. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 03 01; 73(3):321-328.

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Shover CL, Abraham A, D'Aunno T, Friedmann PD, Humphreys K. The relationship of Medicaid expansion to psychiatric comorbidity care within substance use disorder treatment programs. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 10; 105:44-50.

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Abraham AJ, Smith BT, Andrews CM, Bersamira CS, Grogan CM, Pollack HA, Friedmann PD. Changes in State Technical Assistance Priorities and Block Grant Funds for Addiction After ACA Implementation. Am J Public Health. 2019 06; 109(6):885-891.

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Andrews CM, Pollack HA, Abraham AJ, Grogan CM, Bersamira CS, D'Aunno T, Friedmann PD. Medicaid coverage in substance use disorder treatment after the affordable care act. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 07; 102:1-7.

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Andrews CM, Grogan CM, Smith BT, Abraham AJ, Pollack HA, Humphreys K, Westlake MA, Friedmann PD. Medicaid Benefits For Addiction Treatment Expanded After Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 08; 37(8):1216-1222.

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Graham KL, Auerbach AD, Schnipper JL, Flanders SA, Kim CS, Robinson EJ, Ruhnke GW, Thomas LR, Kripalani S, Vasilevskis EE, Fletcher GS, Sehgal NJ, Lindenauer PK, Williams MV, Metlay JP, Davis RB, Yang J, Marcantonio ER, Herzig SJ. Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients. Ann Intern Med. 2018 06 05; 168(11):766-774.

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Tran Smith B, Seaton K, Andrews C, Grogan CM, Abraham A, Pollack H, Friedmann P, Humphreys K. Benefit requirements for substance use disorder treatment in state health insurance exchanges. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2018; 44(4):426-430.

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Henry AD, Gettens J, Savageau JA, Cullen D, Landau A. Massachusetts Medicaid members that smoked in 2008: Characteristics associated with smoking status in 2014. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0186144.

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Friedmann PD, Andrews CM, Humphreys K. How ACA Repeal Would Worsen the Opioid Epidemic. N Engl J Med. 2017 Mar 09; 376(10):e16.

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