title: Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Emergency Psychiatry.
abstract: Emergency psychiatry (EP) is an integral component of comprehensive hospital-based emergency care. EP developed and grew into a medical subspecialty in response to deinstitutionalization and other large-scale forces, resulting in large numbers of psychiatric patients presenting to emergency departments. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 contains several features and provisions that are likely to impact the practice of EP. This article reviews and examines the impact of the ACA on psychiatric emergency care to date and anticipated in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Glenn W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Currier