Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 157 — Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans
§ 18120. Application
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, nothing in such Act (or an amendment made by such Act) shall be construed to—
prohibit (or authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations that prohibit) a group health plan or health insurance issuer from carrying out utilization management techniques that are commonly used as of ; or
restrict the application of the amendments made by this subtitle.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Pub. L. 111–148 title I § 1563(d) · 124 Stat. 119
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 18120
(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(d), formerly § 1562(d), title X, § 10107(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 269, 911.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(d), formerly § 1562(d), title X, § 10107(b)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 269, 911.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1563. SENSE OF THE SENATE PROMOTING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. (a) Findings.— The Senate makes the following findings: (1) Based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, this Act will reduce the Federal deficit between 2010 and 2019. (2) CBO projects this Act will continue to reduce budget deficits after 2019. (3) Based on CBO estimates, this Act will extend the solvency of the Medicare HI Trust Fund. (4) This Act will increase the surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund, which should be reserved to strengthen the finances of Social Security. (5) The initial net savings generated by the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program are necessary to ensure the long-term solvency of that program. (b) Sense of the Senate.— It is the sense of the Senate that— (1) the additional surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund generated by this Act should be reserved for Social Security and not spent in this Act for other purposes; and (2) the net savings generated by the CLASS program should be reserved for the CLASS program and not spent in this Act for other purposes.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 111–148, , 124 Stat. 119. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 18001 of this title and Tables.
The amendments made by this subtitle, referred to in par. (2), mean the amendments made by subtitle G (§§ 1551–1563) of title I of Pub. L. 111–148, which enacted section 300jj–51 of this title, sections 4980H, 5000A, 6055, 6056, and 9815 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and sections 218a to 218c and 1185d of Title 29, Labor, amended sections 300gg–1 to 300gg–3, 300gg–9, 300gg–11, 300gg–12, 300gg–21 to 300gg–23, 300gg–25 to 300gg–28, 300gg–62, and 300gg–91 of this title, sections 125 and 6724 of Title 26, and sections 921 and 932 of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
Codification
Another section 1563 of Pub. L. 111–148 is classified to section 18119 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1563(d), formerly § 1562(d), title X, § 10107(b)(1), , 124 Stat. 269, 911.)