PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Joshua A Hirsch
AU  - Robert M Barr
AU  - Geraldine McGinty
AU  - Gregory N Nicola
AU  - Pamela W Schaefer
AU  - Ezequiel Silva III
AU  - Laxmaiah Manchikanti
TI  - Affordable care 2014: a tale of two boards
AID  - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011322
DP  - 2014 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - 718--720
VI  - 6
IP  - 9
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/6/9/718.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/6/9/718.full
SO  - J NeuroIntervent Surg2014 Nov 01; 6
AB  - 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.