TY - JOUR T1 - Affordable care 2014: a tale of two boards JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery JO - J NeuroIntervent Surg SP - 718 LP - 720 DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011322 VL - 6 IS - 9 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 Y1 - 2014/11/01 UR - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/6/9/718.abstract N2 - 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. ER -