Snap Fact #140

Post date: Mar 24, 2012 12:56:53 PM

Snap Fact #140

President Obama established a new Patient’s Bill of Rights!

Six months after the enactment of Affordable Care Act, the new Patient’s Bill of Rights set regulations for a set of protections applying to health coverage starting on September 23, 2010.

The legislation, which was pushed by President Obama, provides patients 6 main benefits

1) No Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions for Children Under Age 19

2) No Arbitrary Rescission of Insurance Coverage

3) Protecting the patient's Choice of Doctors

4) Restricted Annual Dollar Limits on Coverage

5) Removing Insurance Company Barriers to Emergency Department

Services

6) No Lifetime Limits on Coverage

By establishing the Patient's Bill of Rights, the Obama Administration used the Affordable Care Act to give patients more options and rights when it comes to health care.

Sources:

http://healthreform.gov/newsroom/new_patients_bill_of_rights.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/healthcare-fact-sheets/patients-bill-rights.pdf

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/bill-of-rights/index.html

http://cuellar.house.gov/UploadedFiles/New_Patients_Bill_of_Rights

_Fact_Sheet_Final.pdf