%0 Journal Article %A Joshua A Hirsch %A Robert M Barr %A Geraldine McGinty %A Gregory N Nicola %A Pamela W Schaefer %A Ezequiel Silva III %A Laxmaiah Manchikanti %T Affordable care 2014: a tale of two boards %D 2014 %R 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011322 %J Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery %P 718-720 %V 6 %N 9 %X The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law on 23 March 2010. As part of the law, two independent boards were established. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute embodies national aspirations for employing comparative effectiveness research in healthcare decision-making, and the Independent Payment Advisory Board is focused on the need for a group of impartial experts to establish anticipatable growth rates for Medicare. Approximately 4 years after the bill was passed into law, these independent boards are at very different points in their life cycles. This article provides a status update. %U https://jnis.bmj.com/content/neurintsurg/6/9/718.full.pdf