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 40 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2012	1	1	2
2013	2	1	3
2014	4	3	7
2015	1	5	6
2016	0	3	3
2017	3	3	6
2018	1	2	3
2019	2	2	4
2021	1	2	3
2022	1	1	2
2023	1	0	1

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Geissler KH, Ericson KM, Simon GE, Qian J, Zeber JE. Differences in Insurance Coverage for Individuals With Schizophrenia After Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 03 01; 80(3):278-279.

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James TG, Argenyi MS, Guardino DL, McKee MM, Wilson JAB, Sullivan MK, Griest Schwartzman E, Anderson ML. Communication Access In Mental Health And Substance Use Treatment Facilities For Deaf American Sign Language Users. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 10; 41(10):1413-1422.

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Ellis RP, Hsu HE, Siracuse JJ, Walkey AJ, Lasser KE, Jacobson BC, Andriola C, Hoagland A, Liu Y, Song C, Kuo TC, Ash AS. Development and Assessment of a New Framework for Disease Surveillance, Prediction, and Risk Adjustment: The Diagnostic Items Classification System. JAMA Health Forum. 2022 03; 3(3):e220276.

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Papageorge MV, Woods AP, de Geus SWL, Ng SC, Paasche-Orlow MK, Segev D, McAneny D, Kenzik KM, Sachs TE, Tseng JF. Beyond insurance status: the impact of Medicaid expansion on the diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. HPB (Oxford). 2022 08; 24(8):1271-1279.

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Steenland MW, Wilson IB, Matteson KA, Trivedi AN. Association of Medicaid Expansion in Arkansas With Postpartum Coverage, Outpatient Care, and Racial Disparities. JAMA Health Forum. 2021 12; 2(12):e214167.

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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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