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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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 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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Improved survival and decreased cancer deaths in young adults with cancer after passage of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Expansion. Cancer. 2025 Jan 01; 131(1):e35538.
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Effect of Medicaid expansion on cancer treatment and survival among Medicaid beneficiaries and the uninsured. Cancer Med. 2024 Jul; 13(13):e7461.
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Contextual factors influencing the association between the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and Veteran VA-Medicaid dual enrollment. Health Serv Res. 2024 06; 59(3):e14280.
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Association of Medicaid Expansion with Reduction in Racial Disparities in the Timely Delivery of Upfront Surgical Care for Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer. Ann Surg. 2024 Jul 01; 280(1):136-143.
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Medicaid Expansion's Final Frontier: Breaking State-Level Partisan Opposition. JAMA. 2023 10 03; 330(13):1227-1228.
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Medicaid expansion, chemotherapy delays, and racial disparities among women with early-stage breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 06 08; 115(6):644-651.
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Preterm birth and foetal-neonatal death rates associated with the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion (2014-19). J Public Health (Oxf). 2023 03 14; 45(1):99-101.
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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Disparities in Utilization of Cardiovascular Preventive Services by Socioeconomic Status. Popul Health Manag. 2022 10; 25(5):669-676.
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Impacts of Medicaid Expansion on Stage at Cancer Diagnosis by Patient Insurance Type. Am J Prev Med. 2022 12; 63(6):915-925.
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Association of Medicaid expansion with racial disparities in cancer stage at presentation. Cancer. 2022 09 15; 128(18):3340-3351.