Contributions

  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services - Contributor
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans - Contributor

Publication

2012 - National Academies Press, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

41,000 words, Guess

Page Count

164 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCRA411 .P48 2012

Alternate Titles

  • Essential health benefits

Description

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provisions of the law went into effect in 2010 (including requirements to cover children up to age 26 and to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions for children). Other provisions will go into effect during 2014, including the requirement for all individuals to purchase health insurance. In 2014, insurance purchasers will be allowed, but not obliged, to buy their coverage through newly established health insurance exchanges (HIEs)--marketplaces designed to make it easier for customers to comparison shop among plans and for low and moderate income individuals to obtain public subsidies to purchase private health insurance. The exchanges will offer a choice of private health plans, and all plans must include a standard core set of covered benefits, called essential health benefits (EHBs). The Department of Health and Human Services requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommend criteria and methods for determining and updating the EHBs. In response, the IOM convened two workshops in 2011 where experts from federal and state government, as well as employers, insurers, providers, consumers, and health care researchers were asked to identify current methods for determining medical necessity, and share decision-making approaches to determining which benefits would be covered and other benefit design practices. Essential health benefits summarizes the presentations in this workshop. The committee's recommendations will be released in a subsequent report.

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Other Editions

  • Perspectives on essential health benefits: workshop reportNational Academies Press2012-01-01

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