Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits - Workshop Report (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	2011
Authors:	Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans • Board on Health Care Services • Institute of Medicine
Editors:	Cheryl Ulmer • Bernadette McFadden • Cassandra Cacace
Dimensions:	280 x 216 x 0mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	182
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-21543-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	0-309-21543-9
Barcode:	9780309215435

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