Essential health benefits: 50-state variations on a theme
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Data brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics)
- Author(s):
- Weiner, Janet, author Colameco, Christopher, author
- Contributor(s):
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Penna.] : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, October 2014
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Benefits -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Benefits -- trends Insurance Coverage -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Coverage -- trends Insurance, Health -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance, Health -- trends Benchmarking Forecasting Insurance Benefits -- economics Insurance Coverage -- economics Insurance Coverage -- trends Insurance, Health -- economics State Government Humans United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In-Brief. All qualified health plans under the Affordable Care Act must cover a package of essential health benefits (EHBs) equal in scope to a typical employer plan. The law laid out 10 general categories of services that EHBs must cover, but did not itemize those services. As an interim policy for 2014 and 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services allowed each state to identify an existing plan as a benchmark for these EHBs. The result of this policy is that EHBs vary from state to state, often because of a legacy of different state-mandated benefits (such as treatments for autism, infertility, or temporomandibular joint disorders). This Data Brief analyzes state variation in coverage and limits for these non-uniform benefits.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (5 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101645913 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101645913