Limits on the dollar amount of treatment an individual can receive in a year, imposed by insurance providers. The ACA outlawed dollar based limits but allows limits on total number of treatments.

Americans cannot challenge a tax until after they have paid it; in reference to court challenges to PPACA.

Health insurance plans that are extended to members of an association and marketed to members and small businesses individually. These plans can be affected by state and/or federal regulations or can be exempt from regulations altogether. The regulations can be affected by how the plans are structured, whom they are sold to, and whether they are state-based or national associations.

Pre-approval from an insurance provider for routine medical care.

Meant to pull out ineligible providers before a patient enrolls or submits a claim.

Provision of the ACA requiring organizations with more than 200 full time employees to enroll all new full-time employees in a health plan.

This refers to how long, on average, patients are inpatients in a hospital. This can sometimes be used as a measure of efficiency, but it is not necessarily correlated with quality of care.