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Title Perspectives on essential health benefits : workshop report / Cheryl Ulmer, Bernadette McFadden, and Cassandra Cacace, rapporteurs ; Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans, Board on Health Care Services, National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 164 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- The policy context for essential health benefits -- Purchaser perspectives on the EHB -- State experiences with defining a minimum benefit standard -- Medical necessity and use of evidence -- Insurer decisions of benefit coverage and medical necessity -- Examining two categories of care in section 1302 -- Non-discrimination in the required elements for consideration -- Additional stakeholder perspectives -- Two private-sector approaches to benefit coverage and design -- Deciding what is essential and evidence-based in two states for public insurance programs -- Lessons from California's benefit review process -- Priority setting and value-based insurance design -- Assessing affordability and the potential for underinsurance
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- Congresses
SUBJECT Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States) fast
Subject Medical policy -- United States -- States -- Congresses
Right to health -- United States -- States -- Congresses
Health insurance -- United States -- States -- Congresses
Health insurance -- United States -- Costs -- Forecasting -- Congresses
Medical care, Cost of -- United States -- Forecasting -- Congresses
Health services accessibility -- United States -- Congresses
Health care reform -- United States -- Congresses
Welfare economics -- Congresses
Fairness -- Congresses
Insurance Benefits -- economics
Insurance Benefits -- standards
Insurance, Health -- economics
State Health Plans -- economics
MEDICAL -- Administration.
MEDICAL -- Practice Management & Reimbursement.
Fairness
Health care reform
Health insurance -- Costs -- Forecasting
Health insurance -- U.S. states
Health services accessibility
Medical care, Cost of -- Forecasting
Medical policy -- U.S. states
Right to health -- U.S. states
Welfare economics
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Ulmer, Cheryl.
McFadden, Bernadette.
Cacace, Cassandra.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans.
ISBN 9780309215435
0309215439
9780309215442
0309215447
0309215463
9780309215466
Other Titles Essential health benefits